Alex Cope
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Cope is a Senior Software Engineer based in Seattle with 11 years of experience building secure, cloud-native systems—currently focusing on Kubernetes security at Google. He brings deep back-end expertise and a security-first mindset, demonstrated by contributions to the popular Grafeas artifact metadata API, where he added JWT support and hardened attestation validation. Alex’s background includes formative engineering roles at Microsoft and internships in healthcare and academics, giving him a practical appreciation for reliability across industries. Known for digging into validation and authentication edge cases, he combines rigorous engineering discipline with hands-on open-source contributions that improve overall platform trustworthiness.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
University of Michigan
Github Skills (14)
c1710
kernel10
go10
api10
c1110
kernel-mode10
apidoc10
cryptography10
protocol-buffers10
security9
jwt9
sys9
embedded9
testing8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
grafeas/grafeas
May 2020 - Jul 2020
Artifact Metadata API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 4 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the Grafeas API, focusing on security and data validation aspects. They implemented JWT support, enhancing the API's authentication and authorization capabilities. Furthermore, the user addressed code comments and fixed public key ID validation issues, improving the overall robustness and security of the API. Their work also included re-adding test fixes and handling JWTs in attestation validation.
metadata-apiapiartifactmetadata
alexcope/jwt_verify_lib
Jan 2020 - Feb 2020
Contributions:26 pushes, 12 branches in 18 days
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