Meet Jason
Jason Montgomery
Jason is an Entrepreneur and Information & Application Security practitioner whose security experience evolved out of 15 years of real world software engineering & system administration experience. He co-founded and served as the CTO of startup, Nexosis - an automated machine learning platform - acquired by DataRobot in early 2018. Jason now serves as the Director of Engineering and Product Security at DataRobot helping enhance the security posture for their enterprise AI platform. Before co-founding Nexosis, he was a Principal Security Researcher at Veracode, focusing on binary static analysis and Securing the SDLC. He's built applications for Fortune 500 companies, Internet Startups, as well as State and Federal Government agencies and was a cybersecurity engineer helping secure the electric grid. 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 a certification for measuring developer aptitude of defensible software development techniques. 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, on premise or in the cloud, brings a holistic perspective on security. Jason also contributed to tiles by Wiley Publishing through submitting content as well as providing technical editing. He also authored and taught two courses for .NET developers on writing secure code for SANS Institute and holds a patent on methods for detecting insider threats in applications.