Zachary Jones
Principal Application Security Engineer
Houston, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolZachary Jones is a Principal Application Security Engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience building and leading application security teams and programs for large enterprises. He has deep expertise across DAST, SAST, and SCA, having designed and operationalized SaaS-style testing capabilities and vulnerability taxonomies used at Fortune 100 scale. Zachary has progressed from developer and analyst roles into senior leadership, hiring and managing teams that assessed hundreds of millions of lines of code and thousands of customer sites. He blends technical detection research with practical service delivery—authoring detection methodologies, reducing false positives, and driving product vision with engineering and product teams. Based in Houston, he’s known for translating complex scanner output into repeatable remediation workflows and for fostering cross-functional collaboration between security, development, and business stakeholders. An unexpected strength is his early background in software development and operations, which informs a pragmatic, developer-friendly approach to security automation.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of HoustonPearland High School
Github Skills (48)
validate10
validations9
validation9
sanitize9
sanitization9
wallet8
javascript8
verify7
cryptocurrency7
blockchain7
cert6
algorithmic-trading5
backtesting-trading-strategies5
ethereum5
zipline5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ProZachJ/appsensor-reverse-proxy
Mar 2016 - Jun 2018
Reverse proxy to front-end appsensor and implement various detection points
Contributions:4 PRs, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
proxyreverse-proxyappsensorfront-endpoints
ProZachJ/appsensor
Oct 2015 - Jul 2018
Contributions:4 PRs, 34 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 9 months
event-detectionreal-time
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