Alexandru T
Staff Security Engineer at Shopify
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexandru T is a Staff Security Engineer with 15 years of offensive security and systems experience, now leading growth of Shopify’s Red Team after shaping Red Team practice and tooling at Google. He combines hands-on penetration testing and threat modeling with engineering of scalable tooling for macOS and Linux environments, secrets management, and PKI. His open-source work includes meaningful backend and deployment contributions to Convergence, reflecting a long-running interest in alternatives to traditional certificate authorities. Earlier roles built custom orchestration suites for distributed scanning and large-scale security assessments, showing a knack for automating complex security workflows. Based in San Francisco with an M.Sc. in Computer Science from UBC, he blends research-rooted thinking with pragmatic operational security. Colleagues know him as an “offensive security attaché” who habitually applies engineering rigor to red-team creativity.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science at The University of British Columbia
English, Romanian
Github Skills (6)
twisted10
python10
networking9
devops9
system-administration8
security8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
moxie0/Convergence
Aug 2011 - Aug 2011
An agile, distributed, and secure alternative to the Certificate Authority system.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 commits in 13 days
Contributions summary:Alexandru made significant contributions to the backend infrastructure of the convergence project. Their work included refactoring platform-dependent imports, modifying the setup script to include and remove specific files, and implementing arguments to specify network interfaces and user/group privileges. These changes suggest a focus on enhancing the project's portability, deployment, and security configurations.
securecertificate-authoritysecurityagiletls
axtl/gpg-agent.zsh
May 2016 - May 2020
very simple gpg-agent plugin for zsh
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
gpgagentzsh-plugingpg-agentzsh
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