Jannae Jacks is a Senior Security Engineer based in New York with 12 years of experience building detection, response, and automation programs across large, diverse IT environments. Promoted to L5 at Google, she leads insider threat detection, threat-informed telemetry integration, and automation efforts that reduced operational toil and accelerated investigations. Her background blends deep network and incident-forensics expertise with hands-on application development and DevOps practices, evidenced by contributions to the popular Mackup project where she expanded cross-platform app support. Prior roles at NYU show she can both transform security infrastructure—migrating SIEM platforms and leading cloud security for AWS—and manage and mentor teams. She is currently applying that operational rigor to emerging AI threat assessments, pairing practical detection engineering with thoughtful program leadership.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.B.A., Management Information Systems, B.B.A., Management Information Systems at University of Memphis
M.P.S., Human–computer interaction, Interactive Telecommunications, M.P.S., Human–computer interaction, Interactive Telecommunications at New York University
Keep your application settings in sync (OS X/Linux)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:6 commits, 2 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Jannae primarily contributed to the Mackup project by adding support for various applications, enhancing the utility of the tool. The contributions involved modifying the `mackup.py` file to include the necessary configurations for syncing application settings. These changes included adding support for new applications like Mou, i2cssh, and iTunesScripts, expanding the range of supported applications. Additionally, the user performed an upstream merge to keep the fork up to date and cleaned up accidental commits.
Contributions:86 pushes, 9 branches, 4 issues in 3 years 8 months
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