Miguel Jacq
System Administrator
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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RockstarMiguel Jacq is a Melbourne-based Linux system administrator and consultant with over 16 years managing mission-critical, high-performance and high-availability infrastructure for global clients. Since 2010 he has operated mig5 on retainer and contract, specialising in infosec, automation, CI/CD pipelines and clear technical documentation. He has guided multiple organisations to ISO27001 accreditation by hardening processes, policies and auditing capabilities. An active open-source contributor, Miguel has improved security and UX in projects like OnionShare and extended data-source integrations for Netflix-Skunkworks’ Scumblr, showing strength across GUI and back-end work. He combines hands-on systems engineering with a pragmatic consultancy approach, often delivering both tooling and the governance needed to keep services robust and auditable.
16 years of coding experience
English
Github Skills (32)
json-parser10
apim10
json10
content-security-policy10
web-application10
back-end-development10
python10
sec10
it-security10
jsonp10
networking10
ruby10
security10
activitypub10
pyqt10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
onionshare/onionshare
May 2017 - Dec 2022
Securely and anonymously share files, host websites, and chat with friends using the Tor network
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:59 reviews, 659 commits, 289 PRs in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Miguel contributed to the graphical user interface (GUI) for the OnionShare application, implementing new features and making improvements to the user experience. They refactored settings dialogs, added desktop notification messages for downloads, and implemented functionality for auto-start timer and automatic bridge fetching via the Censorship Circumvention API. Furthermore, the user addressed bugs and enhanced the codebase's overall quality and security.
pythontor-onion-servicefile-sharingonion-serviceanonymously
Netflix-Skunkworks/Scumblr
Mar 2015 - Apr 2016
Web framework that allows performing periodic syncs of data sources and performing analysis on the identified results
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 8 PRs, 11 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Miguel primarily contributed to the development of search providers within the Scumblr framework. Their work included adding new search providers for GitHub, Reddit, and Certificate Transparency, expanding the platform's data source capabilities. They also refactored existing providers, such as the GitHub provider, to support different search types, along with bug fixes to existing providers and small optimizations for Reddit. They consistently focused on integrating external API calls and parsing the returned data into a consistent format.
checklistpythonanalysisdata-sourcesperiodic
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