Jay Beale
CEO, CTO at IANS
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJay Beale is a veteran security technologist and CEO/CTO who has spent over two decades designing practical defenses and offensive tooling for Linux, containers, and Kubernetes. As founder and lead architect of open-source projects like Bastille Linux and the Peirates Kubernetes pentest tool (included in Kali Linux), he blends hands-on engineering—Golang, C, Python—with board-level advising for Fortune 100s and governments. He leads the DEF CON Kubernetes CTF, teaches Black Hat courses on abusing and protecting containers, and has briefed both Congress and the White House on critical threats. Jay’s work on the CIS Linux scoring tool and Benchmarks shows his ability to move consensus-driven security standards into operational use. Known for translating deep technical research into actionable testing methodologies and custom tooling, he routinely performs red-team engagements and threat modeling for high-risk environments. Based in Seattle, he pairs a rigorous academic background in math and computer science with a long record of publicly shared tools and talks.
8 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Program, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, PhD Program, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science at University of MarylandUMBC
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Github Skills (11)
kubernetes10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
devops9
apidoc9
api9
security7
bash7
devise6
ruby-on-rails6
automated-tests4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
inguardians/peirates
Oct 2018 - Jan 2023
Peirates - Kubernetes Penetration Testing tool
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:57 releases, 17 reviews, 273 commits in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Jay primarily worked on building and modifying the Kubernetes penetration testing tool, Peirates. Their commits show contributions to the core functionality of the tool, including adding features, fixing formatting, and restructuring code through merging structs. They demonstrated a solid understanding of the Kubernetes environment by working on code that interacts with the API server and service account tokens. The user's work also involved setting up the attack environment by implementing code for creating a pod and mounting the root filesystem.
kubernetespenetration-testing
JayBeale/community
Aug 2019 - Sep 2020
Kubernetes community content
Contributions:50 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 1 month
kubernetes
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