Justin Cummins
Principal at SAMO Consulting
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Cummins is a Principal security consultant based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 14 years of experience blending hands-on engineering and security practice. After early research and internship roles at places like Sandia, NASA Ames, RSA and Google, he spent several years as a security engineer at Square before founding SAMO Consulting in 2017 to provide independent security advisory services. He combines a strong academic foundation (M.S., UC Davis) with practical incident-focused work, threat modeling, and secure architecture for startups and enterprises. Known for bridging research-minded rigor with pragmatic solutions, he often surfaces subtle systemic risks that teams overlook during rapid product development.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., M.S. at University of California, DavisB.S., B.S. at University of Nebraska at Omaha
Github Skills (64)
crypto10
container10
docker10
bootstrap10
ecosystem10
moby10
secret-management10
json-web-signature10
signing10
secrets10
security10
certificate10
go10
certificate-authority10
assemble10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
pyramidscheme/pyramidtriangles
Jul 2019 - Dec 2020
Software to run the Pyramid Scheme triangles
Contributions:45 commits, 66 PRs, 180 pushes in 1 year 5 months
schemepyramid-schemepythonpyramidtriangles
iamh2o/pyramidtriangles
Jul 2019 - Mar 2021
S/W to run the pyramid scheme triangles (drawn from the grgbrn baaahs2014 codebase)
Contributions:151 commits in 1 year 8 months
schemepyramid-schemedrawnpyramidtriangles
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