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Jason Quinn

Quinn developed and maintained advanced static analysis tooling in the stinb/plugins repository, focusing on MISRA C/C++ compliance, security vulnerability detection, and cross-platform reliability. Over 13 months, Quinn engineered new rule checks, expanded coverage for standards like CWE and SEI CERT, and implemented features such as cyclomatic complexity metrics and multi-language vulnerability scanning. Using C++, Python, and Assembly, Quinn addressed false positives, improved violation reporting accuracy, and streamlined test automation. The work included performance optimizations, documentation cleanup, and robust error handling, resulting in safer code, faster feedback cycles, and a maintainable codebase that supports ongoing compliance and security requirements.

Overall Statistics

Feature vs Bugs

29%Features

Repository Contributions

301Total
Bugs
102
Commits
301
Features
41
Lines of code
30,292
Activity Months13

Work History

October 2025

20 Commits • 1 Features

Oct 1, 2025

2025-10 Monthly Summary for stinb/plugins: Delivered comprehensive MISRA C rule enforcement and safety checks, improved correctness reporting, and established a maintenance baseline to support ongoing safety compliance efforts. Key outcomes include concrete MISRA C 2023 rule implementations with tests, rule identity and categorization corrections, and quality improvements that reduce false positives and noise in analyses. Also completed documentation cleanup and introduced placeholder/noop checks to establish a scalable baseline for future rule development across MISRA/C++/CWE/SEI CERT domains.

September 2025

20 Commits • 2 Features

Sep 1, 2025

In September 2025, the stinb/plugins work focused on stabilizing and tightening cross-platform static analysis, expanding MISRA compliance coverage, and streamlining the codebase to deliver more reliable, business-value results across Windows, macOS, and Linux.

August 2025

20 Commits • 2 Features

Aug 1, 2025

August 2025: Strengthened static analysis tooling in stinb/plugins by expanding MISRA C/C++ rule coverage, improving test suite quality, and tightening documentation. Delivered a new Nested Complexity metric plugin to quantify function-level cyclomatic complexity across languages. Performed a CWE-77 tagging and metadata review to improve security rule categorization and reporting. The changes delivered measurable business value by increasing analysis accuracy, reducing false positives, accelerating developer feedback, and enabling better risk reporting across languages.

July 2025

22 Commits • 7 Features

Jul 1, 2025

July 2025 monthly summary for stinb/plugins: Delivered a focused set of security-oriented features while stabilizing the codebase through targeted bug fixes and MISRA compliance improvements. Key features expanded the security posture with new CWE coverage; the project also advanced compliance documentation and rule updates to support maintainability and audits.

June 2025

23 Commits • 7 Features

Jun 1, 2025

June 2025: Security hardening and vulnerability coverage expansion across the plugins repository, with cross-language support, improved error handling, and quality improvements. Delivered multi-language CWE-78 OS Command Injection support (Ada/Java/Python) with language tagging and utilities; expanded vulnerability coverage including CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read, CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference, and CWE-190 Integer Overflow; added security controls for CWE-798 Hard-coded Credentials and Missing Authentication for Critical Function; resolved script and MISRA issues to stabilize tooling and improve compliance; implemented internal naming consistency improvements to boost maintainability and developer velocity.

May 2025

21 Commits • 2 Features

May 1, 2025

In May 2025, the focus was on performance optimization, quality improvements, and compliance-driven fixes in the stinb/plugins repository. Delivered a notable speed-up for CTR54-CPP, introduced CWE-787 Out-of-bounds write, and resolved a broad set of false positives and messaging issues across MISRA and licensing workflows. These changes reduce noise in analysis results, improve safety and compliance, and enhance maintainability, delivering business value through faster processing, more reliable analysis, and clearer diagnostics.

April 2025

23 Commits • 2 Features

Apr 1, 2025

April 2025 (2025-04) - Monthly summary for stinb/plugins: Delivered a user-facing option to skip member functions in M0-1-10, completed extensive MISRA compliance and quality improvements, and expanded localization readiness with language tagging. The work reduced static-analysis noise, improved test stability, and enabled safer refactors of performance-critical code, aligning with business goals of faster delivery cycles and higher software quality.

March 2025

22 Commits • 3 Features

Mar 1, 2025

March 2025 (2025-03) – stinb/plugins focused on delivering targeted MISRA compliance improvements, performance optimization for critical validation logic, and maintainability enhancements across the plugin. The work reduced false positives, improved cross-platform reliability, and contributed to faster feedback cycles for code quality checks. Key outcomes: - MISRA false positives fixes across multiple rules, reducing noise and improving compliance signals. - Performance improvement for AC_01 via script rewrite, enabling faster validation runs. - Stabilizing fixes addressing critical edge cases and platform specifics, including index bounds, Windows decode handling, and tag consistency. - Quality and hygiene improvements that ease maintenance and debugging, including whitespace/description cleanup and removal of debug statements. Overall, these efforts accelerate safe releases, reduce analyst toil on static checks, and strengthen code quality governance across the MISRA rule set and platform support.

February 2025

45 Commits • 2 Features

Feb 1, 2025

February 2025: Implemented core MISRA compliance enhancements and parser behavior improvements in stinb/plugins, coupled with extensive bug fixes across CPP and VHDL test suites. Delivered features: MISRA switch checks MISRA12_16.1 and MISRA23_16.1; updated strict parser to noop-always-checks. Resolved critical analysis errors across CPP_A000, CPP_E000, CPP_P002, CPP_E024, CPP_L007, and numerous test files; mitigated false positives from macro-driven MISRA definitions (MISRA23_5.9). Stabilized tooling and test scripts (build/test scripts). Impact: higher reliability, compliance, and faster CI cycles; Skills: MISRA rule implementation, static analysis tuning, macro handling, cross-language testing (CPP and VHDL), and tooling resilience.

January 2025

32 Commits • 5 Features

Jan 1, 2025

January 2025 monthly summary for stinb/plugins. Focused on delivering new CPP_P061 capabilities, tightening static analysis quality, and improving automation, documentation, and maintainability. Key outcomes include a configurable CPP_P061 check, reduction of false positives, and enhanced reporting and formatting that improves developer productivity and compliance with standards.

December 2024

27 Commits • 2 Features

Dec 1, 2024

December 2024 monthly work summary for stinb/plugins focusing on strengthening static analysis and MISRA/CPP compliance. Delivered significant feature work and stabilized the analyzer, driving business value through safer code paths and faster maintenance cycles.

November 2024

23 Commits • 5 Features

Nov 1, 2024

Month: 2024-11 — Core work on stinb/plugins focusing on MISRA compliance, test quality, and platform stability. Delivered new MISRA checks to enforce safer coding; consolidated naming via refactor; expanded test coverage; extended MISRA coverage to non-floating loop counters; addressed Linux validation issues, reduced false positives, and performed test cleanup and removal of deprecated checks. These changes collectively improve safety, compliance, reliability in embedded contexts, and reduce maintenance overhead.

October 2024

3 Commits • 1 Features

Oct 1, 2024

October 2024 monthly summary for stinb/plugins focused on delivering reliable static analysis and improving violation reporting accuracy. Key work included fixing violation location reporting to 1-based indices and introducing a new MISRA C 2012 Rule 13.1 static analysis checker. The changes reduce triage time, strengthen safety/compliance, and demonstrate growth in tooling and test coverage.

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Quality Metrics

Correctness87.6%
Maintainability87.8%
Architecture80.4%
Performance82.0%
AI Usage20.6%

Skills & Technologies

Programming Languages

AdaCC#C++JSONJavaPerlPythonTextUPL

Technical Skills

AUTOSARAUTOSAR StandardsAda DevelopmentAssembly LanguageBug FixingBuild SystemsCC DevelopmentC ProgrammingC Programming LanguageC Programming Language StandardsC#C++C++ DevelopmentC++ Standards

Repositories Contributed To

1 repo

Overview of all repositories you've contributed to across your timeline

stinb/plugins

Oct 2024 Oct 2025
13 Months active

Languages Used

CC++PythonPerlupyJSONJavaUPL

Technical Skills

C/C++ DevelopmentCode AnalysisMISRA CPython ScriptingStatic AnalysisStatic Code Analysis

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