J May
IT Cybersecurity Architect at Vermeer Corporation
Mankato, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolJ May is an IT Cybersecurity Architect with nine years of hands-on experience securing enterprise and product platforms at Vermeer Corporation, where he leads product security, threat modeling, internal red teaming, detection engineering, and incident response. He pairs practical architecture work on the IT committee with tool development and a prolific homelab practice used for security testing and prototyping. A hobbyist programmer and content author, he has published technical whitepapers and blogs on DevSecOps, secret management, and application security and has uncovered real-world risks such as a GitHub Actions misconfiguration enabling third-party code injection. Equally comfortable in systems administration, cryptography, networking, and software engineering, he learns by building—examples include an interpreted language exploring AV evasion and an automated Seccomp-BPF generator for container CI. Based in Mankato, Minnesota, he blends investigative offensive techniques with pragmatic defenses to turn complex threats into auditable, automated controls.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Northern Iowa
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Github Skills (200)
end-to-end-encryption10
devsecops10
network-visualization10
github10
python10
handlers10
network-analysis10
api-client10
testing10
security10
pygithub10
backup10
port-forwarding10
docker-container10
rest-api10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
lawndoc/jaws
Feb 2021 - Mar 2025
Jaws is an invisible programming language! Inject invisible code into other languages and files! Created for security research -- see blog post
Contributions:3 PRs, 31 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 1 month
programming-languagesecurityflex-bisoncompilervirtual-machine
lawndoc/cjmay.info
Apr 2022 - Mar 2026
Contributions:59 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 11 months
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