Brendan O'connor
Chief Technology Officer And DSS at Malice Afterthought, Inc.
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolBrendan O'Connor is a Staff Security Engineer with 17 years of experience who specializes in marrying technical security with compliance to protect data while enabling business growth. He has led and built security programs across startups and large organizations—most recently as a founding engineer on GitLab’s Data Security team—and has guided cross-functional remediation of complex legal/technical compliance issues. Brendan combines hands-on engineering (languages from Ruby and Python to AWS and Spark) with policy and legal fluency, holding both an MSE in Computer Science and a J.D., which helps him translate regulatory constraints into pragmatic engineering solutions. He’s shipped security architectures for healthcare and cloud platforms, driven first-time SOC 2 and ISO efforts, and won DARPA Cyber Fast Track funding for research that evolved into production R&D. Known for treating security as an enabler rather than an obstacle, he also runs a consulting/R&D outfit (Malice Afterthought) that produces open and commercial software.
18 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Juris Doctor (J.D.), Law, Juris Doctor (J.D.), Law at University of Wisconsin-MadisonJohns Hopkins UniversityInternational Baccalaureate, International Baccalaureate at United World College of the American West
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Github Skills (66)
node-gyp10
gyp10
nodejs10
oauth10
vpn9
tailscale9
wireguard9
wifi9
procedures8
hat8
privacy-policy8
wireshark8
policies8
hardware-designs7
firmware7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ussjoin/unison
Jul 2022 - Jul 2026
Contributions:30 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years
ussjoin/reticle
Mar 2013 - Feb 2014
Reticle is a C&C network for small devices that want to be friends.
Contributions:53 commits, 6 comments, 1 issue in 11 months
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