Summary
George Jones is a seasoned cybersecurity and data engineering practitioner with over 21 years building, deploying and operating large-scale cloud and network systems across AWS, Azure, and GCP. He blends deep hands-on skills in Spark/Databricks, ETL, Redshift/BigQuery and tooling (Python, Scala, Rust, Go) with longtime operational security expertise from roles at AWS, CERT/CMU, MITRE, and commercial SOCs. A persistent open-source contributor and standards author (editor of RFC 3871 and creator of the Router Audit Tool), he pairs research-led problem solving—published and conference-led work like FloCon—with practical production deliveries that made multi-terabyte analytics actionable for analysts. Now taking time to explore family life and long-distance backpacking, he remains engaged in mentoring, teaching, and documenting overlooked pioneers in cybersecurity, a signal of his intellectual curiosity and commitment to the community.
21 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer and Information Science, BS Computer and Information Science at The Ohio State University
Latin, python