Scott Hissam
About Scott Hissam
Based in the institute’s San Antonio office where I manage and coordinate local staff and technical activities in support of Joint Base San Antonio and DoD organizations. I am also a technical lead/program manager, leading research to practice in software engineer and software technology for acquisition and sustainment of USAF Cyber systems including Agile practices, DevSecOps, cybersecurity, software engineering process improvement, test automation with two-factor authentication support, and operational test and evaluation. As a Principle Researcher, led a number of research projects in systems using commercial off-the-shelf software and open source software, predicting system runtime qualities of safety-critical systems, engineering in multicore programming environments, reactive and adaptable network quality of service, and runtime verification. 25 years of research at the SEI resulted in roughly 80 publications including books, refereed journals and conferences, tutorials, presentations, and technical reports. One of my favorite projects included verification of runtime monitors on real-time platforms such as an autonomous quadcopter. I absolutely adore Linux, professionally and as a hobbyist, and have been predominately doing distributed application programming in *nix and BSD for over 30 years (remember Xenix?) - and enjoying every minute of it — even the frustrating times. As a hobbyist, I fiddle around with my Raspberry Pis customizing recipes from the maker community in home automation and IoT. I am also fascinated with SDRs under Linux using the RTL-SDR USB stick. In the warmer months I tend to leave those projects on the bench and go camping, bicycling, hiking, jogging, or motorcycling.