Brandon Ekins
System Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Ekins is a systems engineer at AWS with eight years of experience building secure, production-grade infrastructure and backend services. He combines hands-on Linux/Unix administration and automation (Ansible, Python) with low-level security engineering, contributing to AWS's s2n-tls project to harden TLS/SSL error handling and introduce tooling that prevents common coding mistakes. His career spans roles from web development and .NET/AngularJS to Linux systems engineering, giving him a pragmatic full-stack perspective on reliability and deployability. Based in Seattle and grounded in an IT degree from BYU, he brings a bias for code quality and security-first design that surfaces in both operational automation and cryptography-focused engineering.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
information Technology, information Technology at Brigham Young University
Github Skills (12)
c1710
it-security10
ss10
error-handling10
sslv310
ssl10
c1110
software-quality10
cryptography10
security10
encryption9
c999
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
aws/s2n-tls
Oct 2019 - Jun 2021
An implementation of the TLS/SSL protocols
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:127 reviews, 99 commits, 188 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Brandon's commits primarily focused on enhancing the security and robustness of the TLS/SSL protocols implemented in the `aws/s2n-tls` repository. They refactored error handling by introducing and utilizing the `S2N_ERROR_IF` macro, ensuring consistent and correct error reporting. Furthermore, the user added a script to identify and prevent common coding mistakes, which demonstrates a focus on code quality and security best practices.
cryptographysslc99tlscrypto
bbutch/aws-lc
Aug 2021 - Dec 2023
AWS-LC is a general-purpose cryptographic library maintained by the AWS Cryptography team for AWS and their customers. It іs based on code from the Google BoringSSL project and the OpenSSL project.
Contributions:137 pushes, 11 branches in 2 years 3 months
cryptographycryptographiccustomerspurposeaws
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