Scott J
Security Incident Response Engineer at Shopify
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolScott J is a Security Incident Response Engineer based in Ottawa with nine years of experience driving detection, response, and remediation at scale. At Shopify he progressed from technical merchant support to building and commanding incident response for major events like Log4J, CodeCov, and Chrome zero-days, and led the design and deployment of the company's first SIEM/SOAR. He coordinates cross-disciplinary fixes, runs root-cause analyses, and supports compliance audits (PCI, SOC2, SOX), blending hands-on incident command with program-level capability building. With a background in civil engineering and a computer science minor, he brings systems-thinking and analytical rigor to security operations, and a practical knack for turning complex incidents into auditable, repeatable processes.
8 years of coding experience
Algonquin CollegeBachelor of Engineering - BE, Civil Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Civil Engineering at University of Ottawa
Github Skills (22)
coverage9
windowing9
react8
language-server8
android8
ruby8
vscode-extension8
language-server-protocol8
react-native7
hotel-booking6
rails5
sorbet5
shopify-api4
shopify4
admin4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
greatscotty/CS1_Fall_2017
Apr 2019 - Sep 2020
Contributions:50 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
greatscotty/google-homepage
Sep 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:45 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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