Jack Mckenna
Principal Engineer at Target
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolJack Mckenna is a Principal Engineer and security architect with 11 years of hands-on experience blending offensive and defensive security across enterprise environments. Based in Saint Paul, he currently leads GenAI security architecture at Target after progressing from lead security roles and applied research at MITRE and vulnerability research at Raytheon. A practitioner of red teaming, developer-focused tooling, and infrastructure-as-code, he translates adversary thinking into resilient, auditable controls for large-scale systems. His background in computing security and computer science underpins a pragmatic approach to threat modeling, automation, and secure platform design that balances innovation with operational risk.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computing Security, Bachelor's degree Computing Security at Rochester Institute of TechnologyBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at James Madison University
Github Skills (117)
automation10
realm10
cybersecurity10
webui10
golang10
rust10
typescript10
implant10
botnet10
agent10
graphql10
react10
rootkit9
http9
starlark8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
GalaxyGridLabs/ggl_core_infra
May 2024 - Oct 2025
Core infra to manage the Galaxy Grid homelab.
Contributions:2 reviews, 18 PRs, 100 pushes in 1 year 5 months
RITRedteam/goofkit
Sep 2018 - Dec 2019
In line function hooking LKM rootkit
Contributions:29 commits, 10 PRs, 28 pushes in 1 year 2 months
rootkit
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