Jason MontgomeryCo Founder

United States - Columbus, Ohio,

Broad Technical Experience and Leadership Roles in Information Security, Application Security, Software Engineering, System Administration, Cloud Infrastructure, Author, Instructor, & Speaker.

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's co-founded and served as the CTO of two Ohio-based startups, Nexosis, an automated machine learning platform acquired by DataRobot in early 2018, and Mantium, an AI based company that allows customers to use state-of-the-art language models to build AI applications and automations. Before Mantium, Jason served as the VP of Enterprise Security focusing on product security and vulnerability management at DataRobot, helping enhance the security posture for their enterprise AI platform. Before co-founding Nexosis, he was a Security Researcher at Veracode, focusing on binary static analysis and Securing the SDLC. He's built applications for Fortune 500 companies, Internet Start-ups, 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 2 chapters about security in Professional K2 blackpearl (Wiley Publishing in 2009) and has instructed and authored two courses for .NET developers on writing secure code for SANS Institute.