Jason Gassel
Information Security Specialist
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolJason Gassel is an Information Security Specialist at IBM with 14 years of engineering experience, blending a software development foundation with focused security practice across healthcare technology and real estate software. He has progressed from building microservices and internal tooling at Cerner to leading vulnerability management and identity systems at SkySlope and now IBM, applying agile methodologies to deliver secure, production-ready systems. Jason holds an MS in Cybersecurity Technology and a BS in Computer Engineering, which underpin his ability to translate complex security requirements into pragmatic, auditable solutions. He brings hands-on experience across the full lifecycle—coding, threat remediation, and identity management—making him equally comfortable with developer workflows and enterprise security controls. Notably, his background as a former software engineer gives him an edge in collaborating with dev teams to bake security into CI/CD and microservice architectures. Based in Boston, he focuses on measurable security outcomes that balance risk reduction with developer productivity.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Cybersecurity Technology, Master of Science - MS, Cybersecurity Technology at University of Maryland Global CampusBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology
Github Skills (20)
splunk7
resteasy7
health7
guice6
cookbook6
runtime-environment5
rest5
jax-rs5
lifecycle5
api4
restful4
jackson4
rest-api3
restful-api3
simulator3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Unofficial-TDL-Testing/tdl-bugs
Jan 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:4 commits, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
jpeg/cerner_splunk
Sep 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 5 days
cernercookbooksplunk
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.