Jan Schaumann
Chief Information Security Architect
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJan Schaumann is a seasoned infrastructure and security architect with 15+ years of experience designing resilient, scalable systems for major internet platforms and edge networks. Currently Chief Information Security Architect at Akamai, he has led high-impact initiatives—Zero Trust strategy, trusted builds and attestation, TLS and edge security—previously shaping infrastructure security at Yahoo, Twitter, Etsy and others. An ongoing adjunct professor at Stevens Institute of Technology, he brings uncommon depth in UNIX internals and system administration to both production architectures and graduate teaching. An active NetBSD developer and long-time open-source maintainer, his work has quietly influenced tools and platforms many users rely on, from pkgsrc ports to enterprise configuration management at 100K-host scale.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Stevens Institute of TechnologyStudies towards Magister Artium Contemporary German Literature And Media, Studies towards Magister Artium Contemporary German Literature And Media at The Philipp University of Marburg
English, German, Spanish
Github Skills (200)
ssh-keys10
ruby10
log4j10
geography10
rcpp10
timezone10
milter10
libary10
twitter10
unix10
internationalization10
casperjs10
phone-number10
currency10
golang10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
jschauma/gandi-tlsa-glue
May 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:6 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
jschauma/cipherdiff
Nov 2016 - Oct 2022
Contributions:29 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years
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