J Hawke
Security Solutions Architect at smallstep
Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolJ Hawke is a Security Solutions Architect with nine years of hands-on experience designing resilient security infrastructure and automating defenses across cloud and corporate environments. He champions a DevSecOps approach—favoring immutable infrastructure, automation, and security-by-design—and has built internal PKI, auto-scaling VPNs, and incident prevention systems. At smallstep and KCF Technologies he moved from implementation to architecture, shaping company-wide phishing programs, policies, and cloud segmentation while advising clients on security and compliance. He is proactively expanding into global privacy regulation, having structured privacy management programs to align with GDPR, POPIA, LGPD and CCPA requirements. Based in Pennsylvania, he pairs practical scripting and IaC experience (Terraform, Bash/Python, CI pipelines) with a pragmatic focus on auditable, scalable security outcomes. An early-career background in audio engineering and research hints at his methodical, detail-oriented approach to complex operational problems.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Penn State UniversityStudy Abroad Program, Study Abroad Program at Queen Mary University of London
English
Github Skills (27)
acme-server10
x50910
certificate-authority10
pki10
security9
acme9
graph9
jwe9
jwt9
go9
totp9
oauth9
jose9
ssh9
ca9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
J-Hunter-Hawke/hello-world
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
javapython
smallstep/run-anywhere-terraform
Jan 2022 - Jun 2023
Terraform modules to set up the base resources required by a run anywhere on-premise installation.
Contributions:7 reviews, 15 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 year 5 months
terraform-module
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