Alex Stockwell
Senior Security Engineer at GitHub
Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Stockwell is a Senior Security Engineer at GitHub with 13 years of experience building secure, scalable systems across healthcare, consumer electronics, and consulting. He blends hands-on software engineering in Go, Ruby, JavaScript, and Python with deep identity and access management expertise, having protected enterprise-critical systems for 80,000+ users in healthcare. As head of development for iCTF and a conference speaker at venues like GopherCon and SANS Hackfest, he pairs practical red/blue team insights with developer-friendly security tooling. His background includes teaching web development at Arizona State University and leading security programs at companies such as Axon and Dignity Health, giving him a rare mix of academic, product, and operational perspectives. Known for connecting security controls to real-world developer workflows, he focuses on automating secure integrations and measurable access controls.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Accountancy, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Accountancy at Arizona State University, W. P. Carey School of BusinessBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Information Systems, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Information Systems at Arizona State University - W. P. Carey School of Business
Github Skills (62)
git10
docker10
postgresql10
jira10
mysql10
gogs10
atlassian10
go10
version-control10
database10
interpreter9
run-command9
golang9
raspberry-pi9
cgo8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
astockwell/serfix
Feb 2014 - Jul 2014
Contributions:15 commits in 5 months
astockwell/countries-and-provinces-states-regions
Jul 2013 - May 2015
Aims to be a complete data store for lists of Countries and their related Provinces/States/Regions, since this inexplicably doesn't exist currently.
Contributions:81 commits, 2 PRs, 34 pushes in 1 year 10 months
regionsdata-storelistsdatabaseaims
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