Alex Cruice
Senior Site Security Engineer at The Lookout Way
Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolAlex Cruice is a Senior Site Security Engineer based in Brisbane with 11 years of experience blending software engineering and security at organisations including The Lookout Way and Five Good Friends. He holds a Bachelor's in Information Technology and has progressed from hands-on developer roles to senior security responsibilities, pairing pragmatic coding skills with operational security practice. An active open-source contributor, he improved the Ruby rotp library by adding OTP URI handling and trimming dependencies—showing attention to secure, maintainable libraries. Alex is customer-focused with a background in mentoring and hospitality that underpins strong communication and team leadership in high-stakes environments.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Information Technology (Computing and Intelligent Systems), GPA 6.684, Bachelor's Degree, Information Technology (Computing and Intelligent Systems), GPA 6.684 at Griffith UniversityCertificate III in Hospitality, Commercial Cookery, Certificate III in Hospitality, Commercial Cookery at Southern Queensland Institute of TAFEOP 4, OP 4 at Downlands College Toowoomba
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Github Skills (7)
library-design10
object-oriented-programming10
ruby10
rspec9
recursion6
postgresql6
functor6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mdp/rotp
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
Ruby One Time Password library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Alex focused on enhancing the `rotp` library, primarily by implementing features related to generating and handling OTP URIs. They introduced a new `ROTP::OTP::URI` class and integrated it into existing `HOTP` and `TOTP` classes. Furthermore, the user removed unused dependencies, improving the codebase's efficiency. This involved modification of core classes and the addition of new functionalities related to the URI generation process.
one-time-passwordrailsrubyone-timepassword
atcruice/rails
Aug 2019 - Sep 2024
Ruby on Rails
Contributions:4 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 1 month
ruby-on-railsrails-apirailsrails-engineruby
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