Summary
Jon Stewart is a seasoned software and systems engineering leader with 16 years of experience building high-impact digital forensics, eDiscovery, and incident response tooling for enterprise and government clients. He has led distributed development teams at LevelBlue and Stroz Friedberg, driving production-grade solutions in C/C++, Rust, Python and C# while leveraging AWS, PostgreSQL, and Elastic/OpenSearch at scale. His background blends deep technical craft—creator of high-performance forensic search tools and early EnCase/eDiscovery leadership—with a consultative approach to solving complex investigations and malware analysis workflows. Comfortable both writing low-level code and shaping product strategy, he focuses on performance, auditability, and operationalizing cyber threat data. Outside engineering, he has served in elected neighborhood government, reflecting a practical commitment to community and governance that informs his leadership style.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
University of Iowa