Keith Chason
Technical Program Manager at Cipher Tech Solutions, Inc.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolKeith Chason is a Technical Program Manager and seasoned engineering leader with nine years of hands-on experience delivering secure, production-grade software across government and commercial sectors. He blends program leadership—running cross-functional teams and daily scrums—with deep technical chops from roles as a software engineer, CTO, and startup founder, often owning architecture, CI/CD, and deployment automation. Keith contributes to open-source security tooling (notably enhancing client certificate authentication in the widely used nuclei vulnerability scanner), reflecting a practical focus on hardening real-world systems. His background as a paramedic and dispatcher informs a calm, mission-driven approach to high-pressure operational problems and stakeholder coordination. Holding a CS bachelor’s and an MS in Information Systems Engineering from Johns Hopkins, he excels at turning complex requirements into auditable, secure solutions.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Binghamton University
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (20)
tls1210
vulnerability-scanners10
tls1310
security10
mtls10
go10
libtls10
mysql9
command-line-interface9
networking9
command-line9
php9
cli9
codeigniter6
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
projectdiscovery/nuclei
Oct 2021 - Oct 2021
Nuclei is a fast, customizable vulnerability scanner powered by the global security community and built on a simple YAML-based DSL, enabling collaboration to tackle trending vulnerabilities on the internet. It helps you find vulnerabilities in your applications, APIs, networks, DNS, and cloud configurations.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:9 reviews, 13 commits, 24 PRs in 8 days
Contributions summary:Keith primarily contributed to the enhancement of client certificate authentication within the project's functionalities. Their work included adding command-line options, implementing argument checks, and integrating client certificate authentication for headless and pooled connections. Furthermore, they made modifications to support the integration of client certificate authority files. The contributions aimed to improve the security and authentication capabilities of the vulnerability scanner, allowing for secure connections to scanned hosts.
scannersecurity-toolsnuclei-engineattack-surfacesecurity
kchason/ComparisonBar
Jun 2017 - May 2022
A simple SVG based horizontal gauge to show performance against peers or benchmarks.
Contributions:5 PRs, 19 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years
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