John Swanson
Head Of Security at Zed Industries
Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Swanson is a seasoned security and risk leader with over a decade of experience building and scaling security programs from startup environments to web-scale enterprises. He led critical incident response, threat detection, and corporate security at GitHub, driving large-scale initiatives like company-wide MFA adoption and crisis response for geopolitical events. Known for blending strategic advisory work with hands-on program building, he has repeatedly reorganized detection and response functions to meet compliance and operational demands at scale. At Zed Industries he now leads efforts to secure the developer ecosystem, bringing a product-aware perspective to developer tooling security. John’s approach is human-first and empathetic—he focuses on empowering remote-first teams while reducing risk across people, process, and product. He holds an MSIT in Information Assurance and a background in both technical operations and policy-informed security response.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MSIT Information Assurance, MSIT Information Assurance at University of Maryland Global CampusBA Political Science Minor in History, BA Political Science Minor in History at Salisbury University
Github Skills (52)
cert10
privacy-policy10
procedures10
phishing10
alerts9
security9
policies9
it-security9
gophish9
malware9
incident-response8
pentesting8
cortex8
oauth8
api8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
swannysec/swannysec.github.io
Sep 2015 - Sep 2022
Contributions:212 commits, 9 PRs, 227 pushes in 7 years 1 month
jtschichold/MineMeldDocker
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:23 commits in 1 day
palo-altodockerfiledocker-imagealtodocker
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