John Skiles Skinner

Hello! I'm John, a software engineer, technical generalist, and writer.

At the Freedom of the Press Foundation I am the engineering manager of the SecureDrop team; we help whistleblowers communicate anonymously with journalists. Previously I worked for the US government as a consulting engineer and project leader at 18F, where we made government websites work better for the public. I have also been manager of software engineering at Unite Us, a software developer at Cornell University Library, and a startup cofounder. I care about transparency: open source, open data, and open knowledge.

You can find my writing in The Washington Post, Salon, 2600 Magazine, Seeing Red Nebraska, Queerantine Zine, on my blog, and on Wikipedia, where I have written more than 60 articles. With friends I run carhenge.club, a Mastodon instance.