Felix Matenaar
Summary
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RockstarFelix Matenaar is a software engineering manager with 13 years of experience building secure, scalable systems across Google, Asana, and Block. He blends hands-on backend and security engineering—contributing to open-source projects like Forseti Security—with leadership, having created a high‑NPS security design review program and scaled AI Studio security at Asana. His background includes building a FIPS 140-2 compliant file encryption and key management solution and researching dynamic application patching, demonstrating deep systems and cryptography expertise. At product-focused organizations he drives measurable risk prioritization, incident response readiness, and performance-minded reliability. Based in Los Gatos and trained at RWTH Aachen, he pairs strong technical craftsmanship with practical, business-aligned security outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (9)
it-security10
python10
back-end-development10
grpc10
security10
gcp9
google-cloud-platform9
sqlalchemy8
database-design7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
forseti-security/forseti-security
Apr 2017 - Dec 2017
Forseti Security
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:169 commits, 72 PRs, 208 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Felix's commits primarily focus on enhancing the Forseti Security project. Their work includes adding a command-line flag for log level and implementing an explain integration, showcasing an understanding of security principles by improving logging capabilities. They also contributed to the backend infrastructure, including gRPC proxy generator, prototype support for multiple services, and various fixes to deployment scripts and database models.
gcpsecurity-toolsforseti-securitysecuritygoogle-cloud-platform
felixbb/forseti-security
Apr 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:134 pushes, 22 branches in 8 months
policygcpsecurity-toolspolicy-enforcementgoogle
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