Jason Dana
Maryland, United States
Summary
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SeniorJason Dana is a Lead Software Engineer and System Administrator with 15 years of experience building secure, distributed systems across Java, Python, C/C++, JavaScript, Kotlin, and Android ecosystems. Currently at Johns Hopkins APL, he blends hands-on engineering with operational stewardship, having architected big-data ingestion pipelines, MDM solutions, and threat detection tooling in prior roles. He has deep experience with Linux, PKI, Storm, Hadoop, Accumulo, and SELinux-related work, bringing a security-first mindset to application and systems design. Jason’s background includes designing modular Electron/React desktop tools and Android security applications, showing fluency across desktop, mobile, and backend stacks. He’s comfortable leading projects from protocol design and automated testing to remote build and deployment environments, and often surfaces subtle security risks through careful file-format and system analysis. Based in Maryland, he combines research-lab rigor with practical production delivery.
16 years of coding experience
Github Skills (15)
selinux10
intermediate-language9
logging9
kernel9
plugin4
linux-kernel4
linux-distribution3
security3
userland3
linux2
audit2
userspace1
fedora1
distributions1
upstream1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
SELinuxProject/cil
Sep 2010 - Nov 2011
The SELinux Common Intermediate Language (CIL) is designed to be a language that sits between one or more high level policy languages (such as the current module language) and the low-level kernel policy representation.
Contributions:382 commits in 1 year 2 months
intermediate-languagekernelselinux
JALoP/JALoP
Apr 2011 - Aug 2013
Journal Audit & Logging Protocol
Contributions:158 commits in 2 years 4 months
logging
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