Craig Jones
I’m fascinated by agentic identity, security, and implementation! I’d love to talk about it!
- Role
- Founder at Pelican Dynamics, Llc
- Location
- Lake Charles, LA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Craig Jones
Senior Staff Software Engineer building platforms where security and distributed systems meet—especially identity, authorization, and infrastructure access for humans, workloads, and AI agents. Primary stack: Go, AWS, Kubernetes, Postgres, and event-driven systems.At StrongDM I’ve led multiple “next‑generation” architecture efforts across authorization/entitlements, scaleable discovery & ingestion, authentication/workload identity, and secrets management—operating at staff+ scope across multiple teams from design spikes through production rollouts. Recent highlights include:• Agentic Security (non‑human identity): advancing short‑lived, verifiable workload identity (SPIFFE/SVID-style patterns) and sidecar/proxy adoption paths that make it practical to secure automation and emerging agentic/AI workflows.• Policy-based authorization: redesigned centralized, DB‑coupled authz into distributed, gateway-first decisioning with contextual controls (device trust posture, step‑up MFA, IP/time/geofence constraints); built an in-memory authorization engine that cut latency from ~2.4s to <15ms and supported req/s.• Cloud discovery at enterprise scale: replaced monolithic push scans with pull-based, resumable execution (state cursors) and a flexible entity/component ingestion model for heterogeneous cloud + Kubernetes resources.My engineering “signature” is decoupling: breaking brittle, tightly-coupled systems into resilient primitives with clear contracts—using standards (OAuth2/OIDC, mTLS/PKI, policy-as-code) and pragmatic consistency tradeoffs to ship safely at scale.I’m also a hands-on org multiplier: technical product ownership, design reviews, mentorship/onboarding, and interviewing/hiring calibration.If you’re building secure platforms for modern infrastructure and AI-driven organizations—especially around identity, authorization, and reliable distributed systems—I’d love to connect.
Experience
Founder
Feb 2025 — Present · Lake Charles, LA, US
Dragging duck hunters into the modern era kicking and screaming
Education
Rice Business
Master of Business Administration - MBA
Louisiana State University
Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics
Louisiana State University
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science
2012 — 2017
Louisiana State University
Bachelor’s Degree, Physics
2012 — 2015
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