Jonathan Donas
Senior Software Engineer - Project Kestrel at CrowdStrike
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJonathan Donas is a senior software engineer with 11 years of experience building secure, scalable systems across AWS and security-focused products, currently driving Project Kestrel at CrowdStrike. He brings deep expertise in API design, applied cryptography, Java/Python, and AWS compute, storage, networking, and serverless platforms, honed through roles on AWS Key Management Service and Code Signing. His background in penetration testing and certifications (OSCP, CCNA Cyber Ops, CCNA R&S) inform a pragmatic security-first approach to software engineering. An active open-source contributor, he enhanced the linux-exploit-suggester-2 tool by expanding kernel exploit detection and improving UX, reflecting hands-on offensive security experience beyond typical cloud engineering work. Based in Seattle, he combines systems-level networking knowledge with production cryptography to deliver auditable, resilient solutions.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science with Business Option, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science with Business Option at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (8)
vulnerabilities10
exploit10
security-vulnerability10
perl10
linux-kernel10
vulnerability10
security9
github5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jondonas/jondonas.github.io
Jul 2019 - Jan 2025
Contributions:96 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
jondonas/forensic-tools
Jun 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:20 commits, 2 pushes in 11 months
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