Consulting Software Engineer with wide range of experience specialized in the SIP domains - Security, Infrastructure, Performance.

I solve problems on day to day basis. I am flexible and I am not tied to a programming language or technology stack. My 14+ years of open source contribution can be seen at https://github.com/isimluk/ My sweet spot is to inherit complex and dated codebase and improve its performance, code quality, and security posture.

Previously, member of Cloud Integration Architecture team in CrowdStrike. Focused on architecting, building and maintaining cloud-based integration across the product portfolio (Kubernetes, Serverless, API SDKs, Log shipping, CloudFormation resources, focused on big 3 clouds; AWS, Azure, GCP). Informal mentoring in the sales and pre-sales organization.

Previously, member of technical staff, Office of the Chief Technologist, Red Hat Public Sector. Contribution across whole Red Hat product portfolio, ensuring government readiness of Red Hat products; Authoring technical primers; collaboration with outside standard authorities on next generation of security & compliance standards; Serving as OVAL Board member. Design & Development & Integration of open source tools in the realm of security. Mentoring developers & managers.

Experience:

• I have 4+ years or experience leading small development teams.
• Design, implementation of new product features and subsystems. Ability to work autonomously or with team
• Broad knowledge of opensource tools and systems
• Deep knowledge of SCAP standards family (Security Content Automation Protocol) and compliance audit of cloud environments
• Participated in SCAP 1.2 implementation within OpenSCAP project
• Release nanny of multiple releases of the OpenSCAP project, most active contributor, reviewed hundreds of patches
• Feature lead of OpenSCAP scanner integration to Spacewalk project and RH Satellite
• Designed a web-based tool for SCAP scans comparison
• Feature lead of remediation capabilities of OpenSCAP
• Advocated for and started and lead continuous integration project for security-related components in Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Found and filed dozens of issues against open source projects
• Mentor to new team members
• Technical communication with SCAP 1.2 certification authority
• Co-authored an U.S. Patent Application
• Work traveling across Europe, U.S., and middle east
• Passionate about open source software, tooling, and automation.
• Languages: C, Go, Rust, Python, Ruby, Ruby on Rails