Jason Wright
Visiting Professor at Thought Networks LLC
Idaho Falls, Idaho, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Wright is a veteran kernel and systems engineer with 23 years of experience building device drivers, network stacks, and virtualization internals for Linux, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD. He has deep expertise in Layer 2 networking (Ethernet, FDDI, Token Ring, 802.1D) and Layer 3+ protocols, and has experience delivering production-grade drivers for a wide range of hardware including PCI, SBus, USB, and cryptographic accelerators. Jason co-authored a bluepill hypervisor and has applied his low-level skills to security work at Idaho National Laboratory and in cyber research roles, bridging research and operational needs. He now combines academia—teaching programming, networking, and databases—with consulting and principal engineering at his own firm, bringing practical, bare-metal insight into classrooms and applied projects. Based in Idaho Falls, he’s equally comfortable tracing packet flows in kernel space as he is mentoring students on systems programming, a blend that keeps his tooling and teaching tightly coupled.
23 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at University of IdahoBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Github Skills (61)
sega-genesis10
data-structure9
octoprint9
ninja9
algorithms9
player9
cpp9
data-structures9
tcpdump8
monorepo8
auditing8
backend8
android-sdk8
redux8
sniffer8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
wrigjl/cppds
Sep 2024 - Feb 2026
Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures using C++
Contributions:218 pushes, 548 branches in 1 year 5 months
wrigjl/simplesmtpd
Aug 2022 - May 2026
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch, 4 issues in 3 years 10 months
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