Brian Davis
Software Engineer at broadcom
Summary
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RockstarBrian Davis is a Distinguished Engineer with 12 years of experience building secure, reliable infrastructure and developer platforms across enterprise and government contexts. He has progressed through senior SRE and security leadership roles at VMware and Broadcom, combining hands-on systems engineering with platform security and compliance ownership. His background spans DevSecOps, crypto-related security at CipherTrace, and large-scale operations for defense and veterans' services, reflecting deep expertise in Linux, networking, and cryptography. An active contributor to open-source tooling, he improved the checksec project's build and self-update security by adding signature verification and safer build practices. Based in Greater Tampa Bay, he brings the discipline of his Air Force networking and COMSEC experience to modern cloud-native reliability and risk-managed platform engineering.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (11)
sh10
script10
bash10
shell10
scripting10
cicd10
githubaction-workflow9
openssl9
github-ci9
security8
version-control8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
slimm609/checksec
Feb 2014 - Dec 2022
Checksec
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:26 releases, 28 reviews, 193 commits in 8 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Brian's contributions primarily focused on improving the build and update processes of the checksec tool. They implemented a self-update feature using `wget` and `curl` and incorporated signature verification using `openssl` to ensure the integrity of updates. Furthermore, the user improved the build process by using `mktemp`, preserved permissions, and cleaned up syntax for better maintainability.
golangchecksecsecuritychecksum
slimm609/lighthouse
Jan 2021 - Apr 2023
Contributions:17 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 3 months
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