About
Jesse Edwards
15+ years building secure systems
I built security tools at JPMorgan Chase and connected-vehicle systems at DENSO, then built and run RenovationRoute, AI included. Now I help mid-market companies and DoD contractors get security, AI, and architecture right.
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What I Have Built
Real systems. Real scale.
JPMorgan Chase. Lead Security Engineer, Vice President
Built a threat modeling tool that scans Terraform and architecture diagrams. It cut manual effort by eighty percent and caught twice as many design flaws. Technical lead on a SOAR-style CI/CD security pipeline for sixty-plus mobile apps.
DENSO Innovation Lab. Principal Engineer, IoT Edge Platform
Technical lead for a thirteen-engineer team in Seattle, India, and Japan building a production IoT edge platform for connected vehicles. Designed zero-trust device provisioning and a full observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo). Deployed on one hundred-plus units.
Automotive embedded. Zero bugs after deployment
Built real-time embedded systems for automotive ECUs. Created an automated testing framework used by one hundred-plus engineers. Not one bug fix needed after deployment.
Why You Should Trust Me
I Have Built It Myself
Security tools at enterprise scale. Connected vehicles in production. Embedded systems with zero bugs. An AI service I run in production today. Published research. A business I founded and run.
Research paper published at SAE. Presented at SAE and IEEE SecDev conferences.
A live contractor marketplace that brings in revenue, built from scratch: Stripe escrow, real-time chat, multi-tenant architecture, and the AI Intel Service, all in production. Rails, Python, AWS, PostgreSQL. It started as my own problem as a homeowner. Now it is where everything I recommend gets shipped, broken, and fixed first.
RFID hacking, network penetration testing, custom VPNs on Raspberry Pi, home automation with BeagleBone Black, and now production AI systems. I do not just talk about how these things work. I build and break them.
Embedded systems, cloud platforms, and AI services, in automotive and financial services. On every program I have led, security was part of the design from day one, not added at the end.
Technical Depth
From hardware to AI
Threat modeling tools, SAST integration, CI/CD security pipelines, SOAR-style automation. I build tools that run security checks automatically across a whole organization.
OpenAI pipelines. Prompt design and evals. Output validation. Prompt injection defenses. Cost and latency tradeoffs. Async architectures for inference workloads.
Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, OpenTelemetry, cAdvisor, Node Exporter. Full-stack observability from edge devices to cloud microservices.
AWS (EC2, ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS, IoT). Docker, Terraform, Jenkins, Kubernetes. Designed zero-trust provisioning pipelines with mTLS and scoped IAM policies.
Python, Ruby (Rails), C and C++, JavaScript (Node.js), SQL. REST, GraphQL, MQTT, Kafka. PostgreSQL, MongoDB. I write the code myself.
Technical lead for a thirteen-engineer team across three countries. Built tooling used by one hundred-plus engineers. I can write the code and run the meeting.
How I Work. Straight Answers.
Do not need Kubernetes? I will tell you. Architecture is fine? I will say so. Do not need AI for that workflow? Same answer. You get an honest picture, not made-up work.
A CMMC assessment for a $30M defense contractor, a SOC 2 program for a $50M SaaS company, and an AI build for a 200-person services firm are different problems. The work fits your actual situation.
I write code. I deploy infrastructure. I debug production issues. You get work you can build on, not a slide deck.
Education and Recognition
M.S. Computer Science
Lawrence Technological University. Security and Software Engineering concentration.
Published Research
Research paper published at SAE. Presenter at SAE and IEEE SecDev conferences.
AWS in Production
Hands on with EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, IoT Core, and infrastructure automation.