Jason D. Montgomery

Co-Founder / CTO at Mantium | VP of Enterprise Security at DataRobot | Director of Engineering and Product Security at DataRobot | Co-Founder and CTO of Nexosis, Inc - Machine Learning for Developers.

Broad Technical Experience and Leadership Roles - Principal Information Security Specialist, Application Security Subject Matter Expert, Software Engineer, System Administrator, Cloud Infrastructure, Author, Instructor, & Speaker.

Information, Hardware & Application Security Expert whose security experience evolved out of 15 years of real world software development, system and network admin experience. Before co-founding Nexosis, Jason's was a Researcher at Veracode focusing Application Security and Binary Static Analysis. He spent two years in the utility space in Security Engineering working to help harden the electric grid. He's built and secured applications for Fortune 500 companies, Internet Start-ups, as well as State and Federal Government organizations. As a contractor for the Department of Defense, he hardened servers, provided security guidance to developers, revealed and helped mitigate vulnerabilities in federal systems and built custom applications.

He served on the GIAC Secure Software Programmer (GSSP) Steering Committee which produced the first .NET GSSP Blueprint used to develop certification for measuring developer aptitude of defensible software development techniques and is currently on the ISEC Advisory Board at Franklin University. His knowledge of programming, Information Security, and network protocols combined with his system administration and system hardening experience in Windows as well as the Linux/BSD Unix operating systems produces a holistic perspective on security.

Publications

Professional K2 blackpearl (Wiley Publishing Inc, 2009), Co-Author

SANS Institute DEV-544 - Secure Coding in .NET: Developing Defensible Applications