Bourget Bourget
Chief Executive Officer at The Polaris Collective
City of Rochester, New York, United States
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Top SchoolBourget Bourget is a cybersecurity entrepreneur and CEO of Blue Cycle with 12 years of experience building automation-first tooling for Blue Teams and SOCs. He blends hands-on engineering—contributing to open-source projects like StackStorm and msg-extractor—with executive leadership and a track record founding and scaling security firms such as Syncurity. Based in Rochester, NY, he couples an MS in Computer Security with deep DevOps and SOAR expertise, automating response workflows “one API and one commit at a time.” An active mentor, advisor, and investor in the cyber ecosystem, he advises startups and accelerators while serving on boards and mentoring founders. Notably, his contributions to StackStorm improved backend reliability and error handling, reflecting a pragmatic focus on operability and user-facing documentation. He’s equally at home writing install guides as he is architecting automated remediation for real-world incident response.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Security and Information Assurance, MS Computer Security and Information Assurance at Rochester Institute of TechnologyAAS Computer Information Systems, AAS Computer Information Systems at Monroe Community CollegeAmherst Central High School
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Github Skills (29)
storm10
python10
installer10
exception-handling10
postinstall10
installers10
documentation10
file-parsing9
workflow-engine9
configuration-management9
devops9
configuration-file9
automation9
workflow-automation9
argo-workflows9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
StackStorm/st2docs
Mar 2019 - Jul 2020
StackStorm Documentation.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:57 commits, 22 PRs, 39 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Bourget's contributions primarily focused on updating and expanding the documentation for the StackStorm project. The commits include corrections to installation guides for RHEL8, updates to the system requirements, adjustments to configuration documentation, and fixes to links and code examples within the documentation. They also added information related to MongoDB 4.0 support and workers per service, demonstrating a focus on providing comprehensive and accurate user documentation.
stackstorm
TeamMsgExtractor/msg-extractor
Nov 2018 - Oct 2019
Extracts emails and attachments saved in Microsoft Outlook's .msg files
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:78 commits, 15 PRs, 28 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Bourget primarily contributed to the `msg-extractor` project by modifying the core Python code, specifically the `extract_msg.py`, `extract_msg/extract_msg.py` and `extract_msg/base.py` files. Their commits included adding and removing requirements, refactoring and updating the code, fixing syntax and ensuring the compatibility of the code base. They also made changes to `setup.py`, indicating involvement with building and packaging the project.
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