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Top SchoolJovel Crisostomo is a Staff Engineering Manager based in Seattle with 12 years of experience building and leading platform and security-focused engineering teams. At GitHub he currently heads the Dependency Graph team, helping developers map dependencies and detect vulnerabilities, and previously led the Apps/Identity team that launched fine-grained personal access tokens for programmatic access. He combines hands-on systems and API engineering (Go, Python, Ruby, Envoy/Terraform on AWS) with product-minded leadership, having built next-gen API gateways and core identity/auth services across multiple companies. Early career work spans build/configuration, deployment, and research roles at The Aerospace Corporation and UC Irvine, reflecting a foundation in operational rigor and applied research. Known for translating complex security and platform requirements into pragmatic, developer-friendly solutions, he brings a blend of infrastructure craftsmanship and cross-functional mentorship to large-scale developer platforms.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Irvine