Jason Blanks
Senior Threat Hunter & Incident Responder
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJason Blanks is a Senior Threat Hunter and Incident Responder based in New York with 12 years of hands-on experience defending complex enterprise and public-sector environments. He has led city-wide CERT operations at NYC Cyber Command, coordinating responses across 180+ agencies and working directly with vendors like Google to implement BeyondCorp/Zero Trust controls. Jason combines deep DFIR roots from KPMG and Barclays with practical automation expertise—building detection and response workflows in Tines, Postman, and CrowdStrike for mixed Mac, on‑prem, and AWS ecosystems. He’s skilled at turning investigative findings into strategic savings and operational improvements, having identified million-dollar efficiencies through smarter log management and platform design. Known for a pragmatic skepticism of vendor lock‑in, he prefers engineering durable, automated toolchains and playbooks that scale across cloud and legacy systems. His background uniquely blends front-line incident leadership, forensic engineering, and a history of defensive work inside both finance and government contexts.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Science at Old Dominion University
Stackoverflow
21reputation
2kreached
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Github Skills (57)
security9
parsing9
cortex8
api8
analyzer8
incident-management8
rest7
memory-dump7
incident-response6
logic6
rabbitmq6
zeromq6
python6
scala6
django6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jasonblanks/NTK
Mar 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:37 commits in 2 months
jasonblanks/yara
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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