Justin England
Vice President Of Security at Bastion Security Consulting
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin England is a seasoned security and platform executive with two decades of hands-on experience building "secure by design" frameworks for financial services, blockchain, and hyperscale organizations. As VP of Security at Chia Network he stood up global security and IT operations, implemented crypto key management for high-value assets, and automated self-healing audit cycles to pass SOC and ISO assessments. He blends deep DevSecOps and platform engineering roots—contributing to Chia’s blockchain and Docker tooling—with a founder’s instinct for bespoke security consulting through Bastion and Vericreate. Known for a "nuclear grade" commitment to procedural discipline, he pushes security upstream using agentic AI-driven threat hunting and LLM-based war-gaming to accelerate vulnerability resolution. He also manages complex global logistics and life-safety operations for personnel in hostile environments, a less obvious but critical competency for protecting distributed key holders. Based in the United States with a BS in Information Technology from Penn State, Justin pairs entrepreneurial grit with proven operational leadership across public/private partnerships and high-stakes incident response.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS IST Information Technology, BS IST Information Technology at Penn State University
Github Skills (21)
docker10
python10
scripting10
configuration-management10
bash10
chain10
ch10
dockers10
script10
blockchain10
dockerfile10
sh10
shell10
networking9
automation9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Chia-Network/chia-docker
Mar 2021 - Aug 2021
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:4 releases, 26 reviews, 81 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Justin primarily focused on configuring and improving the Docker setup for the chia-docker repository. Their contributions included adding and modifying scripts within the Docker environment, such as `chia.sh` and `entrypoint.sh`, to manage Chia blockchain initialization and startup processes. They made changes to the keys management, plot directory configuration, and overall application startup logic. Further, they worked on integrating testnet capabilities and configuring settings for test environments within the Docker image.
chia-blockchainchiadocker
Chia-Network/chia-blockchain
Dec 2020 - Nov 2022
Chia blockchain python implementation (full node, farmer, harvester, timelord, and wallet)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 112 reviews, 82 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Justin primarily contributed to the configuration and setup aspects of the Chia blockchain implementation. They modified the configuration files, adding and modifying settings for the node introducer, full node port, and logging levels. Their work also included adjusting network configurations for testnet and mainnet, demonstrating a focus on network settings and overall system setup for the blockchain.
chia-blockchainpythonwalletspython-blockchainwallet
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