Jondavid Black
CIDO Chief Engineer at Northrop Grumman
Alabama, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJondavid Black is a seasoned engineering leader and CIDO Chief Engineer at Northrop Grumman with two decades of experience delivering software and systems for federal and defense programs. He has led complex missile defense and space-range collision avoidance initiatives, directing digital transformation and corporate engineering baselines across large, mission-critical organizations. A hands-on technical fellow and program director, he blends systems architecture, R&D stewardship, and operational delivery to harden national and allied defenses. Outside work he organizes the DevOps for Defense meetup and volunteers locally, reflecting a commitment to workforce development and community. He’s also an unlikely policy footnote—part of the group that helped recognize “Jedi Knight” on the 2001 UK census—illustrating a career that spans technical depth and wide-ranging curiosity.
8 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Mississippi State University
Github Skills (7)
arch10
defense9
devops8
recipe5
cookbook4
vagrant3
cms2
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jondavid-black/food
Dec 2020 - Dec 2024
A repo to collect my recipes and test ideas for CM'ed documentation.
Contributions:1 review, 28 PRs, 64 pushes in 4 years
cmscollectrecipesvagrantcookbook
jondavid-black/DevOpsForDefense
Jan 2018 - Jun 2022
Repository for the Huntsville/Madison DevOps for Defense Meetup. Join us at meetup.com.
Contributions:226 commits, 12 PRs, 219 pushes in 4 years 4 months
defensehuntsvillejoindevops
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