Bob Gendler
IT Specialist at National Institute of Standards and Technology
Medfield, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBob Gendler is an IT Specialist and Apple platform expert with over six years at NIST focused on macOS security and managed desktop environments. He combines hands-on systems engineering—from JAMF-driven deployment of hundreds of Macs and iPads in education—to contributing full-stack fixes for the usnistgov/macos_security compliance project, including template, script, and OVAL generation improvements. A longtime Apple enthusiast with experience building enterprise-grade infrastructure and secure remote access solutions, he brings practical, audit-ready solutions to OS configuration and policy generation. Based in Medfield, Massachusetts, he pairs nostalgic Mac knowledge with modern security tooling to make device fleets both manageable and compliant.
6 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's Degree, Information Technology at Rochester Institute of Technology
English
Github Skills (7)
macos10
bash10
asciidoc10
python9
yaml9
zsh8
javascript5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
usnistgov/macos_security
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
macOS Security Compliance Project
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:43 releases, 3 reviews, 952 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Bob's commits primarily focused on modifying the CSS and HTML of the AsciiDoc templates. They also implemented logic for generating configuration profiles, added file path logic, updated the generate script, and fixed the generation of OVAL code. The user appears to be actively involved in updating and maintaining the security baseline by modifying scripts that produce documentation and associated configuration files.
endpoint-securitysecuritybashsecurity-compliancemacos-security
robertgendler/controlfreak_lookup
Sep 2020 - Apr 2022
Lookup tool for controlfreak.risk-redux.io
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 year 6 months
riskredux
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