John Whiteman
Senior Principal Security Engineer at Oracle
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Whiteman is a Senior Principal Security Engineer with 11 years of experience blending offensive and defensive security, threat modeling, risk assessment, and secure software development. A U.S. Navy veteran based in Portland, he has driven product and research-focused security work at Oracle, Lam Research, and Intel, and previously secured web applications at OHSU. He pairs hands-on programming and mentorship with formal academic training from Georgia Tech and Portland State, enabling pragmatic mitigation strategies across hardware and software stacks. Known for teaching and mentoring teammates, he brings a researcher’s curiosity to real-world engineering tradeoffs—and, despite a dry GitHub bio, a track record of tackling subtle, system-level threats that often go unnoticed until they become critical.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts Asian Studies, Bachelor of Arts Asian Studies at University of Maryland Global CampusMaster of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Portland State University
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Github Skills (15)
trend8
java7
dub6
pycharm6
github6
jmx6
filter5
jvm5
latex5
python4
pandoc3
markdown3
foundation2
security2
owasp1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
johnlwhiteman/pandoc-run-filter
Jul 2020 - Aug 2020
A simple filter for pandoc that runs commands and scripts capturing the output as images or text.
Contributions:2 releases, 17 commits, 14 pushes in 1 month
pandoccapturingpythondubruns
johnlwhiteman/bad-human-code
Aug 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:3 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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