Jonathan Foote

Strategic technology advisor and coach to founders and investors on engineering, evaluation, and GTM for AI agentic workflows and development agent integration.

Security and privacy product R&D. Lead engineer and architect across security product lines. Built and ran the bot management product engineering team through launch. Some carryover responsibilities from my previous roles.

Executed all-things-security for Fastly through IPO and developed technology behind Fastly’s core products.

Offensive security.

Penetration testing, vulnerability assessments, training development and delivery, business development. Ranked among top producing consultants. Privileged to work with some awesome hackers.

Bootstrapped vulnerability discovery fundamental research program, from pitch, funding, to execution.

Directed research as primary investigator. Created systems and tools, researched, and developed business on behalf of lab stakeholders.

Designed and implemented improvements to chip fabrication simulation and planning engine. Nominated by IBM for PSU Internship of the Year.

Graduated with Distinction

Act as product advisor and technical mentor for AI initiatives at Fastly

Design toolkit and implement first version of SAAS platform agent skills. Act as mentor to project lead.

Coach and strategic advisor to founders on engineering, evaluation, and GTM for AI agentic workflows and code agent integration.

Develop comprehensive phase model for Fastly edge processing; apply it for improvements in strategic technical decision-making

Co-lead for Fastly's WAF performance improvement initiative.

Architect for Fastly's Client Side Protection product.

Architect for Fastly's DDoS Protection product.

Built and led the team that developed Fastly's Bot Management product.

C2PA is a way to tell where media came from. I actively collaborated with other members to develop and publish the first version of the C2PA technical specification, through 2022. I also co-chaired the threats and harms taskforce in 2021.

Worked with some legit geniuses to invent Fastly Compute's tech. Supported an amazing team that developed it into a product.

Acted as tech lead in developing and executing Fastly's security program. 2015 ish - 2019 ish.

I was a research lead at SEI CERT. I needed an above-board way to fund collaboration with CMU, so I bootstrapped CERT's DoD fundamental research program. Soup to nuts, including funding. The university research grew into a commercial spin-out.

Projects, demos, and PoCs. Some more popular than others. Mostly infosec and privacy related. All available on Github.

Also presented at ArcticCon 2018 and as a less formal talk at Duo. I linked that version here since it is on YouTube.