Desmond Jackson
Chief Executive Officer at Twitch
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDesmond Jackson is a cybersecurity-focused CEO and hands-on software engineer with 13 years of experience building, breaking, and securing applications for government and commercial clients from Washington, D.C. He leads Jackson CS Consulting while maintaining deep technical practice as a penetration tester, vulnerability broker, and developer with a track record at Synopsys, Radiance, Parsons, and Google. His background spans web, mobile, thick-client and firmware-level testing, exploit development, reverse engineering, and secure code review, and he’s run training courses like “Defending Java” and “Defending C++.” Notably, he has operationalized automated vulnerability scanning and integrated tooling into commercial frameworks, and has repeatedly converted research findings into production-safe fixes for high-risk systems. Colleagues rely on him for technical oversight of red-team engagements and mentoring engineers in secure development practices.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Alabama School of Mathematics and ScienceBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at The University of Alabama
English
Github Skills (21)
vnc-client8
defense8
java7
malware7
stellar6
novnc6
javascript6
web-application6
react5
html5
lantern5
vnc5
arraybuffer4
proxy4
wss4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
DMoneigh/BrowserBot
Jun 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:16 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
DMoneigh/JScanner
Jul 2014 - Aug 2019
Java Malware Defense Tool (Stars, Watches, and Forks were reset)
Contributions:50 commits, 31 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 2 months
watchesforksdefensejavamalware
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