Jason Ruckman
Senior Director at Cognitiv
Kirkland, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJason Ruckman is a senior technology leader and founder with 11 years of experience building high-throughput, cloud-native data platforms and security products. As Founder/CTO of SecureCloudDB and now Senior Director at Cognitiv, he blends systems engineering, distributed streaming, and database forensics to secure and monitor cloud databases at scale. His background spans exabyte-scale spatial storage engines, managed streaming platforms, and real-time analytics at companies including HERE and AWS Kinesis, with hands-on expertise in Java, C++, Kubernetes, Trino, Spark, and AWS services. He has a knack for turning research-grade infrastructure into cost-effective, production-ready systems—evident in SecureCloudDB’s sandboxed rules engine and S3-based forensics warehousing. Based in Kirkland, WA, he couples founder-level product instincts with deep technical craft across storage, streaming, and security.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at State University of New York at Buffalo
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Github Skills (40)
serializer9
parquet8
databases8
java8
avro8
jdbc7
indexing7
sql7
apache7
database7
ignite6
streaming6
kudu6
sql-database6
hive6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
JasonRuckman/sidney
Sep 2014 - Feb 2016
Contributions:151 commits, 22 PRs, 116 pushes in 1 year 5 months
columnarserializer
ChainMonitor/JavaBitcoindRpcClient
Mar 2018 - May 2018
Java Bitcoind RPC helper class
Contributions:4 PRs, 8 pushes, 5 branches in 2 months
rpcbitcoindhelper-classbitcoinjava
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