J Mackinnon is a DevSecOps Engineer with a decade of experience building and operating security platforms at Yale University, focused on increasing visibility into networked devices and users. He blends systems architecture and hands-on administration experience—from leading Windows teams to designing data ingestion and analysis pipelines—using Elastic Stack, Kubernetes/OpenShift, Ansible, and Python. As Automation Team Lead he drives sustainable, cost-effective SIEM and observability solutions that tie telemetry to accountable assets. Based in New Haven, he brings a pragmatic security mindset that values long-lived, maintainable systems and the operational skills to keep them running. Notably, his background in large enterprise AD/Azure environments informs practical identity-aware security engineering beyond typical DevOps toolchains.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Oberlin College
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