Brian Cox
Principal Software Engineer at Tripwire Inc
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Cox is a Principal Software Engineer based in Portland, Oregon, with over 10 years of hands-on experience building and hardening security-focused backend systems. He brings deep expertise in C/C++, Java, SQL and cross-platform Unix and Windows environments, and has a long tenure at Tripwire where he has driven portability, build-system resilience, and cryptographic robustness. As an open-source contributor to the well-known Tripwire project, he’s fixed compiler- and platform-specific build breakages (including OpenBSD, Minix, and Hurd) and improved SHA and RNG support—work that speaks to both low-level systems savvy and security-minded engineering. Colleagues rely on him for practical solutions that span operating systems from Linux to AIX, and for quietly improving code quality and reproducible builds across diverse platforms.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BS Sociology, BS Sociology at Portland State UniversityPortland Community CollegeComputer Science, Computer Science at Augusta State University
Github Skills (9)
build-system10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
sha10
cryptography10
security9
openssl9
portability9
configuration-management9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
Tripwire/tripwire-open-source
Mar 2016 - May 2021
Open Source Tripwire®
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:8 releases, 324 commits, 22 PRs in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Brian contributed to the Tripwire Open Source project by fixing build breakages related to compiler versions and adding platform-specific build fixes, including those for OpenBSD, Minix, and Hurd. They also updated GNU configuration files and corrected a typo, indicating a focus on software build processes, portability, and code quality. Furthermore, the user improved cryptographic features by adding a fix for non-OpenSSL SHA functionality and integrating support for features such as the utilization of RNG (random number generation) devices.
checklisttripwirecompliancechange-detectionmd5
brc0x1/tripwire-open-source
Mar 2016 - Oct 2019
Contributions:4 PRs, 126 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 7 months
tripwire
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