Jerry Benton
Founder at Mailborder Systems
Charleston, South Carolina Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJerry Benton is a founder and systems architect with 12 years of professional experience and a decades-long background in Linux and email infrastructure, having authored the core code for Mailborder, an enterprise-grade high-availability email gateway. His career spans military communications to large-scale enterprise and coalition network security, where he designed and deployed PKI, HBSS, NAC, and site-to-site VPNs for US and NATO commands. Comfortable across MySQL, Perl, PHP, Bash, multiple Linux distros, FreeBSD, virtualization and cloud platforms, he blends hands-on development with deep operational and security expertise. A former Marine officer with an MS in Information Assurance, he brings disciplined leadership and pragmatic engineering to resilient, mission-critical messaging systems. An oft-overlooked strength is his long-term perspective on anti-spam and email trust problems, informed by working on them since the early 2000s.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree MS - Information Assurance, Master’s Degree MS - Information Assurance at Norwich UniversityBachelor’s Degree BS - Business Administration, Bachelor’s Degree BS - Business Administration at The Citadel
Japanese
Github Skills (39)
php10
maxmind9
parser8
email-parser8
geoip8
webservice7
webapp7
php-api7
spam-filtering7
sender6
parse6
wordpress-plugin6
wordpress6
webservice-client6
mail-parser6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
MailScanner/v5
Apr 2016 - Sep 2017
MailScanner v5
Contributions:1 release, 174 commits, 27 PRs in 1 year 4 months
phpemailmailscanner
MailScanner/v4
Jun 2014 - Apr 2016
Contributions:370 commits, 13 PRs, 355 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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