Jon Spraggins
Director Of Software Engineering at Babel Street
Opelika, Alabama, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJon Spraggins is a Director of Software Engineering and principal platform engineer with two decades of hands-on experience building secure, resilient infrastructure and managed attribution networks. Currently leading a team at Babel Street, he focuses on expanding platform capabilities and mentoring engineers while maintaining operational rigor. His background spans military-grade information systems, large-scale configuration management for DoD contracts, and running virtualized appliance fleets and proxy networks for commercial products. Jon combines field-level hardware and user support experience with automation (SaltStack) and vulnerability auditing to deliver practical, auditable solutions. Notably, he has designed multi-server Proxmox clusters and managed attribution networks that supported dozens of users, reflecting an operator’s mindset applied to platform engineering. Based in Opelika, Alabama, he brings a blend of leadership, security-first thinking, and frontline troubleshooting uncommon in senior engineering managers.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Applied Science, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Associate of Applied Science, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Fayetteville Technical Community College
Github Skills (42)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jonspraggins/MMM-GFDA
Apr 2019 - Jun 2021
A MagicMirror² compliments file that displays "Good Fucking Design Advice"
Contributions:2 PRs, 46 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 1 month
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jonspraggins/tinkering-nerd
May 2016 - Apr 2019
Contributions:9 commits, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 11 months
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