Jonathan Reed
Principal Architect at Akamai Technologies
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Reed is a Principal Architect at Akamai with 16 years of experience designing resilient global networks, performance engineering large-scale systems, and translating customer problems into pragmatic technical solutions. He blends hands-on software and DevOps skills—honed during a long tenure at MIT supporting student and faculty computing—with strategic architecture and delivery leadership across Akamai. Jonathan is equally comfortable shipping code, leading releases, and mentoring teams, and he has contributed security-focused enhancements to open-source OpenID Connect tooling. Based in Cambridge, he brings a user-centered approach from his background in urban studies and human relations, which helps him bridge technical tradeoffs with organizational and customer needs.
16 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Human Relations, Master’s Degree, Human Relations at Lesley UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Urban Studies & Planning; Geographic Information Systems, Bachelor’s Degree, Urban Studies & Planning; Geographic Information Systems at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (9)
authentication10
user-authentication10
php10
authorizations10
rsa10
authorization10
jwt10
openid-connect10
cryptography9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jumbojett/OpenID-Connect-PHP
Nov 2014 - Mar 2015
Minimalist OpenID Connect client
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 6 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan focused on enhancing the security and functionality of the OpenID Connect client. They implemented Base64URL decoding for JWTs and added support for verifying RSA signatures using phpseclib. Further contributions included ensuring the user had authorized the openid scope and refactoring code to be compatible with PHP 5.2.
openidoidcauthorizationprotocolminimalist
mit-athena/scripts
Mar 2010 - Sep 2014
Contributions:233 commits in 4 years 7 months
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