J Mackinnon
DevSecOps Engineer at Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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Top SchoolJ 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
English
Github Skills (85)
elastalert10
opensearch10
windows10
elasticsearch10
visualizations10
chromium10
linux10
browser10
firefox10
search-engine10
brave10
yelp10
java10
elastic10
restful10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
jgregmac/hyperv-fix-for-devs
Jul 2021 - Nov 2021
Installation Script for the Hyper-V / WSL2 Network Fix for Linux Developers
Contributions:17 commits, 1 PR, 11 pushes in 4 months
cygwinfixinstallation-scripthyper-vlinux
jgregmac/Marlin
Oct 2021 - Oct 2023
Marlin is an optimized firmware for RepRap 3D printers based on the Arduino platform. | Many commercial 3D printers come with Marlin installed. Check with your vendor if you need source code for your specific machine.
Contributions:5 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years
vendorfirmwarereprapavr3d-printer
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