Mark Croxton
Information Security Director
Chantilly, Virginia, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolMark Croxton is an Information Security Director with nearly three decades of experience securing commercial, defense, and intelligence systems and leading large, geographically dispersed technical teams. He has a long track record of modernizing security operations, guiding assessment and authorization programs, and shaping executive policy to align cybersecurity with mission outcomes. At General Dynamics he directs security services across multiple classified systems, mentors leaders, and drives performance metrics and readiness for major federal inspections. His background includes hands-on offensive and defensive consulting for Fortune 500s—risk analysis, penetration testing, and disaster recovery—giving him a practical perspective on enterprise risk reduction. An active contributor to open-source front-end tooling, he has improved htmx’s history caching, URL normalization, and memory management, reflecting a blend of security leadership and code-level problem solving. Based in Chantilly, VA, he combines program management chops with deep technical fluency to translate complex security requirements into auditable, mission-focused solutions.
16 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Virginia Tech
Stackoverflow
101reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (7)
html10
javascript10
htmx10
testing10
hypermedia9
localstorage8
rest7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
bigskysoftware/htmx
Nov 2022 - Dec 2022
</> htmx - high power tools for HTML
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 commits, 8 PRs, 41 comments in 24 days
Contributions summary:Mark primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and robustness of the htmx library. They made contributions to improve history caching, including implementing the `hx-history` attribute to control caching behavior and preventing the caching of sensitive data. The user also worked on standardizing URL normalization within the library and addressed memory leaks related to DOM node references, enhancing the overall performance and stability of htmx. Moreover, they developed a test suite to validate new features, ensuring proper functionality.
htmxjavascriptpower-toolsresthateoas
croxton/ee_zen_garden
Jun 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:87 commits, 69 pushes, 8 branches in 11 months
templateexpressionenginedesign-challengetemplate-design
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.