Jean Mackay
Staff Software Developer at Trend Micro
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJean Mackay is a Staff Software Developer based in Ottawa with eight years of professional experience and a total of over a decade working across embedded, systems, and networking software. He specializes in driver development for both Linux and Windows, kernel integration, and system performance analysis, and has progressed through technical roles at Trend Micro after earlier systems and network-focused positions at Diablo Technologies and Rockwell Collins. Jean contributes to open-source security tooling—enhancing Clair’s vulnerability analysis and HTTP handling—which reflects his interest in improving real-world supply-chain and container security workflows. His background includes designing network models and schedulers for distributed simulations and creating test architectures, giving him a strong foundation in reliable system design and validation. Former military service in an administrative and leadership role signals disciplined project stewardship and operational rigor that he brings to engineering teams. He combines hands-on low-level coding with a systems-level view, making him effective at turning performance and reliability requirements into practical implementations.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Algonquin Collegeb. eng. Software Engineering, b. eng. Software Engineering at Lakehead University
English, French
Github Skills (13)
http10
vulnerabilities10
security-vulnerability10
go10
vulnerability10
oracle8
rhel8
debian8
oracles8
dockers7
docker7
container7
static-analysis6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
quay/clair
Jul 2018 - Sep 2018
Vulnerability Static Analysis for Containers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 11 PRs, 20 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Jean primarily focused on enhancing the Clair project's vulnerability analysis capabilities. Their contributions included integrating the `httputil` package for improved HTTP request handling, including setting the User-Agent and handling status codes. They also modified vulnerability source code, specifically for Oracle, RHEL, and Debian, to leverage the new `httputil` functionality and improve error handling. Additionally, they made changes to the NVD integration, ensuring the use of `httputil` and optimizing data feed downloads.
claircontainersoci-imagevulnerabilitiessecurity
MackJM/clair
Jul 2018 - Oct 2019
Vulnerability Static Analysis for Containers
Contributions:30 pushes, 8 branches, 3 comments in 1 year 3 months
containerssecuritydockervulnerabilitykubernetes
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