Jathan Mccollum
Staff Software Engineer at Textla
Los Angeles, California, United States
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RockstarJathan Mccollum is a Staff Software Engineer and security-minded infrastructure expert with three decades of hands-on experience building and hardening distributed systems. He currently leads platform engineering and compliance (SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA) at Textla, improving reliability for an SMS platform used by 21K+ businesses. As co-founder and CTO of Blind Insight he designed an end-to-end encrypted enterprise data platform, applying deep cryptography and systems thinking to real-world products. A long-time open-source maintainer and core contributor to projects like Nautobot and Trigger, his back-end and authentication work has been adopted by hundreds of enterprises. He blends operational SRE experience from Dropbox and automation leadership from Salesforce and AOL with early-career security roles, giving him rare cross-domain fluency. Colleagues know him for pragmatic security-first architecture and an unusual habit of prototyping cryptography with Python (and pizza).
15 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (48)
datetime10
python10
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apidoc10
django10
modeler10
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forloop10
loops10
modello10
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
nautobot/nautobot
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
Network Source of Truth & Network Automation Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 releases, 2010 reviews, 437 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Jathan's contributions primarily focused on improving the back-end infrastructure and functionality of the Nautobot platform. They made significant changes to the core Django settings and authentication backends, streamlining the configuration process and enhancing security features. The user also implemented database-backed status fields for multiple models and contributed to API and GraphQL endpoint improvements. These changes involved working with Django models, filters, serializers, and API viewsets, demonstrating a deep understanding of the platform's internal workings.
netmikopythonnetwork-automationtruthsot
jathanism/pynsot
Jan 2015 - Mar 2019
Python client for NSoT REST API
Contributions:2 PRs, 109 pushes, 123 branches in 4 years 2 months
apipythonpython-clientpython-3aio
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