John Swanson
Head Of Security at Zed Industries
Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Swanson is a seasoned security and risk leader with over a decade of experience building and scaling security programs from startup environments to web-scale enterprises. He led critical incident response, threat detection, and corporate security at GitHub, driving large-scale initiatives like company-wide MFA adoption and crisis response for geopolitical events. Known for blending strategic advisory work with hands-on program building, he has repeatedly reorganized detection and response functions to meet compliance and operational demands at scale. At Zed Industries he now leads efforts to secure the developer ecosystem, bringing a product-aware perspective to developer tooling security. John’s approach is human-first and empathetic—he focuses on empowering remote-first teams while reducing risk across people, process, and product. He holds an MSIT in Information Assurance and a background in both technical operations and policy-informed security response.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MSIT Information Assurance, MSIT Information Assurance at University of Maryland Global CampusBA Political Science Minor in History, BA Political Science Minor in History at Salisbury University
Github Skills (55)
rust-lang10
tree-sitter10
multiplayer10
text-editor10
privacy-policy10
procedures10
code-editor10
phishing10
incident-management9
analyzer9
cert9
security9
policies9
cortex9
gophish9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
swannysec/swannysec.github.io
Sep 2015 - Sep 2022
Contributions:212 commits, 9 PRs, 227 pushes in 7 years 1 month
jtschichold/MineMeldDocker
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:23 commits in 1 day
palo-altodockerfiledocker-imagealtodocker
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