Brian Avery
Senior Security Engineer at Angi
Greater Boston United States
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Top SchoolBrian Avery is a Senior Security Engineer with 11 years of experience building secure, cloud-native backend systems and leading cross-functional security, development, and DevOps teams. He blends hands-on Golang, Python, and CI/CD engineering with product and supply-chain security work, having automated release and testing pipelines across enterprises and open-source projects. At Red Hat he led test, release, and product security efforts for Istio and contributed to its governance and tooling, and his open-source contributions include CI/CD, release-notes tooling, and test frameworks for the widely used Istio ecosystem. He has driven security initiatives at scale in multi-cloud environments, improved time-to-release through strategic automation, and routinely surfaces vulnerabilities via static analysis and code review. Based in Greater Boston, he pairs pragmatic engineering with mentorship—believing every team member can add insight—and has a long-standing interest in IoT, Kubernetes, and application/supply-chain security.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science (AS) Computer Engineering Technology, Associate of Science (AS) Computer Engineering Technology at NHTI, Concord's Community CollegeBachelors of Science Electrical Engineering Technology; Computer Technology, Bachelors of Science Electrical Engineering Technology; Computer Technology at University of New Hampshire-Manchester
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Github Skills (45)
git10
service-mesh10
kubernetes10
github-ci10
website-development10
scripting10
testing10
configuration-management10
test-framework10
bash10
cicd10
release-management10
automation10
script10
go10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
istio/test-infra
Apr 2020 - Aug 2021
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:78 reviews, 55 commits, 55 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to the `test-infra` repository by modifying and enhancing the release notes validation process. They updated scripts for checking release notes files, integrated schema validation, and adjusted the process to use `gh pr view` for retrieving PR information. The user also made adjustments to the CI/CD pipeline, specifically for automating builds and deployments. These changes involved modifying scripts and configurations for more robust and accurate release note checks.
istio/istio.io
Jul 2018 - Jun 2021
Source for the istio.io site
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:104 reviews, 51 commits, 70 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to the documentation of the Istio project. Their commits include adding feature status tables, publishing dates to news articles, and implementing a test status script. Additionally, they've modified and added files related to the project's website layout and content, with modifications in newsfeeds and test scripts. Overall the changes focused on providing content organization.
istiomicroservices-architecture
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