Location: Seattle and Vancouver Island
Remote: Yes
Willing to Relocate: No (unless absolutely amazing role)
Technologies: Azure, AWS, Big Data (Cosmos/ADLS/etc), Python,C/C++/C#, Data Engineering, DevOps, SRE, DataScience/ML, Security tooling (static analysis, SCA, security education, data science/machine learning as applied to security)

Linkedin: https://linkedin.com/in/jvandenbos
Email: jvandenbos07 AT gmail.com

About: A long and storied past 🙂

Currently VP Engineering (VP Platform) at a large company providing software for EMS/Fire Depts across the world.

Own the underlying Big Data (data pipelines, data storage (data warehouse/data lake/lakehouse) and analytics systems, shared services (search, mapping, SSO …), application security, cloud operations, and developer operations teams

Previously:

– Global Head of Data Engineering (Security) @ HSBC bank – owned the underlying big data systems powering security/fraud analytics and investigations.
– Sr. Product Manager @ Microsoft in Azure – Owned Azure DevOps Packaging (Artifacts)
– Sr. Program Manager @ Microsoft – Owned Open Source Software evaluation (scanning pipeline to ingest, scan, and perform data science on the Open Source packages in use by Microsoft, created by Microsoft, and generally a good portion of Github OSS. Also ran a robotics/AI lab there (teaching others across the company how to use ML/Data Science)
– DevOps Manager @ ATT
– Built a Dropbox-like, white label startup that provided file sharing, video distribution/transcoding, and collaboration services to large ISPs across the nation.
– Cybersecurity under AT&T’s B2C (Marketing) umbrella (wireless.att.com, dsl.att.com, uverse.att.com) – Security Architect
– Joined AT&T just as the iPhone launched. Helped build out their network and security systems (Sr. Security Architect) under crazy pressure as the iPhone launched to keep up with demand of all the new users and technologies.
– Joined Microsoft as Trustworthy Computing launched – owned Data at Rest (380 lines of business applications – PII, global governance, et al). (Data Classification, encryption, access, logging, and destruction/EOL).
– Helped launch one of the first Saas Healthcare companies (2002) as their SVP tech – providing scheduling, registration, and access management services to healthcare institutions across the nation.

Before that:
Most of the 90s – built out a consulting company providing security and networking services to Canadian companies. Ran an ISP (near Chicago).

Also Paramedic/Firefighter/Flight Medic on the side, and startup mentor in the Seattle area.

Looking for cool projects with Purpose to be involved in – architecture, security, infrastructure, cloud, emerging technologies, startups, …