Parth Patel is an engineering leader and CPO/Co‑Founder of Kusari who focuses on bringing transparency and security to software supply chains. He holds a master’s in Information Assurance from Northeastern and has a hands‑on track record building SLSA‑compliant CI/CD and attestation systems using Tekton, in‑toto, and SPIFFE/SPIRE. His background spans mission‑critical cybersecurity at Raytheon to edge deployments with TPM‑integrated k3s, custom Envoy proxies, and secure messaging for constrained devices. An active open‑source contributor, he has contributed attestation and GCS collector work to the guacsec/guac project and helped remediate CVEs in in‑toto‑golang. He excels at turning rigorous security controls into reproducible pipelines and brings an aerospace engineering mindset to product and platform design.
4 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at Penn State University
Master's degree, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, 3.85, Master's degree, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, 3.85 at Northeastern University
GUAC aggregates software security metadata into a high fidelity graph database.
Role in this project:
Back-end & Security Engineer
Contributions:2063 reviews, 68 commits, 391 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Parth contributed to the implementation of a new collector interface, along with adding features like polling for the Google Cloud Storage (GCS) collector. These changes involved modifying the GCS collector to retrieve artifacts and introduced core functionalities within the `pkg/ingestor/collector` and `pkg/handler/collector` directories. Furthermore, the commits indicate a focus on software security through the integration of attestation and vulnerability management features.
Contributions:39 reviews, 35 PRs, 22 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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