Jason Oakley
Senior Abuse Engineer at Proofpoint
Taree, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolJason Oakley is a Senior Abuse Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience securing and operating Unix/Linux environments and tuning detection systems to stop email and network threats. He blends deep systems expertise—having managed 30+ Unix/Linux servers, written Nagios plugins, and scripted secure data transfers—with practical abuse-detection work at Proofpoint and Cloudmark, developing tooling in Perl, Python, Bash and Lua. Equally comfortable in customer-facing roles and backend engineering, he has a track record of reducing costs and turnaround times through pragmatic automation and clear documentation. ITIL-trained and experienced with ServiceNow/OTRS and Salesforce, he proactively prevents incidents while supporting strict SLAs and change management. Based in Taree, Australia, he’s a self-motivated road warrior who continues to run and experiment on his own servers outside office hours, bringing curiosity and perseverance to resilient, production-grade solutions.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Office Administration, Certificate, Office Administration at Taree TAFEChatham HighTaree West Primary
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Github Skills (35)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
WauloK/VZ200-Aseprite-Export
Nov 2021 - Jan 2026
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
WauloK/Foxglovz
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
Contributions:6 pushes in 9 days
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