Brent Johnson
Staff Application Security Engineer
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrent Johnson is a Staff Application Security Engineer based in San Jose with 11 years of experience focused on securing software at scale. He has grown through multiple engineering levels at GitHub—from intern and contractor to senior and now staff—demonstrating deep institutional knowledge of platform security and developer workflows. Brent blends hands-on vulnerability discovery and remediation with program-level thinking to harden large codebases and CI/CD pipelines. His background as a course TA in software development suggests strong mentorship and communication skills alongside technical expertise. Colleagues likely rely on him for pragmatic, developer-friendly security controls that balance risk and velocity. He brings a rare combination of long tenure inside a single major developer platform and the practical instincts needed to influence secure product design.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Southern California
Github Skills (19)
cve10
api-client9
github9
wrapper9
vulnerabilities8
api8
brakeman8
security-vulnerability8
ruby8
static-analysis7
security7
rails7
oauth7
ruby-on-rails5
rendering4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
brentjo/yt-sub-search-keybind
Sep 2022 - Oct 2023
Contributions:2 releases, 2 pushes, 4 tags in 1 year 1 month
brentjo/set-timer
Sep 2022 - Dec 2024
Contributions:2 pushes in 2 years 3 months
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