Greetings! Thanks for the visit!

You're probably not here on purpose. But if you are, you might be interested in:

  • My professional interests in computer security, analytics and object oriented programming recently lead me to start Jemurai, a company focused on improving application security through collaboration with developers and a focus on tools for developers. Jemurai's first project is HoneyField
  • My family. I have photos up, and tend to tweet about the kids. You can follow "mkonda".
  • A website I started as a tribute to my dad, Michael Albertson, who was a mathematician in the field of graph theory. www.graphcolormike.org
  • Random things I like to write about...I call tangents.

Professional Summary (resume)

I just founded Jemurai to work on software development security. That is now my sole focus. Check it out.

For four years from 2008-2012, I was a Director and Software Architect in the Engineering group at Trustwave, an internet security company (yes, the PCI one) with a broad range of product and service offerings. I worked with a number of our technologies and products but I'm sure I'm not at liberty to disclose any interesting details. I enjoyed the security space, and working through many familiar challenges with regard to running software development projects.

Before joining Trustwave, I ran consulting in North America at Applimation, a data management software company that has since been aquired by Informatica. While I learned a lot from interacting with the folks that run ERP projects at Fortune 500 companies, running consulting for a product company was a little too far afield from building the software - which has always been my passion.

From 2003-2007 I worked at Redpoint Technologies, a Chicago based consulting firm specializing in the most current object oriented technologies and agile development practices. This was absolutely a highlight in terms of the quality of people I was working with. I would continue to recommend them for anyone doing harder than average projects in Chicago.

Before Redpoint, I worked at Alphablox, which built a library of components for visualizing data in Essbase, and Microsoft Analysis Services cubes. This was my introduction to data warehousing and analytics - which I have continued to take an interest in through experimental use of the Pentaho project and more recent exposure to the Jasper product suite. Some of my favorite moments involved teaching business users what their data showed them about their business... Alphablox, which was a great product, was later purchased by IBM.

In summary, I have almost fifteen years of experience consulting, leading projects, and architecting and building enterprise software solutions for clients and companies whose core businesses have included: security, compliance, healthcare, financial services, communications, retail, manufacturing and logistics. The key functions of these systems ranged from profit analytics to security to data warehousing to pricing to remote monitoring of embedded devices.

My resume is here. You can also find me on Linked In. Don't hesitate to contact me. I am also on Twitter (mkonda).