Ted Jackson
Senior Application Security Engineer
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTed Jackson is a Senior Application Security Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience protecting web, mobile, and API surfaces across healthcare and ad-tech. He blends penetration testing, secure code review, and automation to shrink remediation windows—building self-service security review platforms and CI/CD-integrated pipelines that cut review times and surface more issues. At Elevance he led a third-party pentest vulnerability program that reduced new high/critical findings by over 75% and scaled WAF onboarding to protect many more applications. He’s proficient in Go, Python, JavaScript, SAST/SCA tooling, and pragmatic WAF management, and he mentors teams to raise organization-wide security maturity. Based in Indianapolis and trained at the University of Washington, he pairs offensive expertise with developer-friendly controls to make security an enabler, not a blocker. Uncommonly, he also built physical and tooling resources early in his career to accelerate pentest productivity and automation.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Informatics: Information Assurance and Cybersecurity Path, Bachelor's degree Informatics: Information Assurance and Cybersecurity Path at University of Washington
Github Skills (26)
babel-core8
wildcard7
nyc7
extglob7
matching7
multimatch7
minimatch7
glob6
edit-distance6
square5
regular-expression5
pattern-matching5
regex5
node-glob5
javascript4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
duckingtoniii/yeighisbad
Aug 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:85 pushes in 1 month
duckingtoniii/cryptolocked-ng
Jan 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes in 9 months
cryptographyantiransomwarenew-featureshunter
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