Luke Jones
Education Lead
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLuke Jones is an education-focused security researcher and engineer with 11 years of experience building hands-on learning platforms and tooling, currently leading education and problem development for picoCTF at Carnegie Mellon. He blends deep academic research in obfuscation, malware similarity, and formally verified coding with practical systems work—having prototyped novel obfuscation techniques at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and built ATLAS, a DNS-analog for a spatial web. Luke is passionate about unjargonizing research and making computing useful to non-specialists, often translating arcane security concepts into teachable, game-like experiences for young learners. A self-described generalist who masters one thing at a time, he values communication and the “light bulb” moments that come from effective instruction.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Information Assurance, 3.88 / 4.00, Master’s Degree, Information Assurance, 3.88 / 4.00 at Northeastern UniversityBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, 3.75 / 4.00, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, 3.75 / 4.00 at United States Air Force Academy
Stackoverflow
107reputation
31kreached
5answers
4questions
Github Skills (66)
structures10
textbook10
ctf10
security9
malware9
similarity9
location8
objdump7
authority7
clang6
ada6
decompiler6
python6
lsb6
dictionary6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
syreal17/ByteWise
Oct 2017 - May 2023
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
picoCTF/start-problem-dev
Mar 2020 - Mar 2022
Everything (examples, docs, references, ...) to start developing problems for the cmgr framework
Contributions:1 review, 133 commits, 11 PRs in 2 years 1 month
everythingdevelopingproblemssystem-design
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