Brian Manifold
Senior Fullstack Engineer at Firezone
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area United States
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Top SchoolBrian Manifold is a Senior Fullstack Engineer with 13 years of experience building secure, scalable systems across enterprise and networking domains. Currently at Firezone, he drives full-stack features and refactors Liveview components for a production-ready zero-trust access platform based on WireGuard, bringing practical UI and backend cohesion to open-source security tooling. Previously, he led security engineering efforts at Marqeta and spent eight years at Cisco, blending deep operational security knowledge with hands-on software development. With an M.S. in Computer Science and a nontraditional start in Recording Industry Management, he pairs technical rigor with a creative, user-focused approach to product design.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Recording Industry Management, B.S., Recording Industry Management at Middle Tennessee State University
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Github Skills (22)
elixir10
el10
phoenix-liveview10
phoenix-framework10
liveview10
web-development10
apache-phoenix10
architecture9
user-interface9
architectures9
rest-api8
database8
api8
rest8
databases8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
firezone/firezone
Jun 2023 - Apr 2025
Enterprise-ready zero-trust access platform built on WireGuard®.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:990 reviews, 193 PRs, 286 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to the Firezone project by refactoring and building out core features. They refactored Gateway and Resource Liveviews to utilize real data from the database and updated the static Liveview templates to use components. They also created vertical table components to allow for consistent styling and a more DRY approach to the user interface. Furthermore, the user added a sign up page, enabling the creation of new accounts.
zero-trustspidvpnwireguardcloud
KnoxMakers/LaserCNC
Aug 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:24 commits, 6 pushes in 6 months
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