Jack Sheriff
Lead Software Engineer at MITRE
Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJack Sheriff is a Lead Software Engineer with 11+ years of experience delivering enterprise-critical applications across government and commercial sectors, currently driving technical strategy and hands-on development at MITRE. He has led cross-functional teams to build cloud collaboration platforms, clinical iPad tools, military mobile apps, and high-performance field data collection software, consistently turning prototypes into production-impacting solutions. Comfortable across stacks—from Node.js/Angular/MongoDB to iOS Objective-C and C++—he blends architecture, planning, and development to solve complex, multi-stakeholder problems. Notable outcomes include IRS Labs becoming a standard part of IRS app workflows and a Census handheld redesign driven by his performance-focused redesigns. Based in Virginia, he pairs a dual Computer Science/Biology background with a pragmatic, forward-looking approach to emerging technologies. Colleagues rely on him for clear sponsor briefings, disciplined delivery, and the knack for turning constrained prototypes into widely adopted tools.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science/Biology Interdisciplinary Degree, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science/Biology Interdisciplinary Degree at Loyola University Maryland
Github Skills (9)
cybersecurity10
mitre-attack10
rest-api10
rest10
deprecated10
cyber-threat-intelligence10
share-extension10
angular9
threat-intelligence6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mitre-attack/attack-workbench-rest-api
Jan 2020 - Jan 2023
An application allowing users to explore, create, annotate, and share extensions of the MITRE ATT&CK® knowledge base. This repository contains the REST API service for storing, querying, and editing ATT&CK objects.
Contributions:20 reviews, 385 commits, 145 PRs in 2 years 11 months
restrest-apishare-extension
ElJocko/civitates-data
Jan 2015 - Nov 2025
Contributions:42 pushes, 1 branch in 10 years 11 months
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