Jason Hopper
Senior Vice President Of Applied Research at QOMPLX
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Top SchoolJason Hopper is a senior research and engineering leader specializing in applied cyber security, currently serving as Senior Vice President of Applied Research at QOMPLX where he leads AESM/IASM, UEBA, and internet-scale sensing efforts. With an 11-year track record spanning startups, academia, and acquisitions, he built Omnisense—an internet sensing and cyber event identification tool acquired by QOMPLX—and now owns broad data science and product portfolios. His background in physics and computer science underpins a practical strength in large-scale data systems, automated sensing, and machine learning for threat detection and risk quantification. Jason combines hands-on technical work (from embedded flight control to mass scanning and malware tracking) with strategic product leadership, bridging research prototypes into production cyber tools. Based in Halifax, he brings a rare mix of experimental research rigor and entrepreneurial execution, often focusing on unusual signal extraction from noisy global datasets.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Physics and Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Physics and Computer Science at Dalhousie University
Github Skills (14)
legaltech10
searchable10
government-data10
financial9
image3
image-processing3
semantics3
parser2
whois2
parsing2
image-library2
swift2
swifty2
python1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
hopperj/learning-tensorflow
Mar 2017 - Jul 2024
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 5 months
TeamHG-Memex/imageSimilarity
Mar 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:9 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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