Brian Ruf
Owner Consultant at Ruf Risk
Aldie, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Ruf is an experienced cybersecurity and IT leader with over three decades of hands-on and executive experience, currently consulting as Owner of Ruf Risk to help organizations adopt OSCAL for automation and continuous authorization. He co-created the NIST OSCAL specification and the OSCAL REST OpenAPI spec, blending standards-level influence with practical FedRAMP and cloud security delivery across federal, healthcare, telecom, and financial sectors. Brian has led major modernization and authorization efforts—ranging from FAA air traffic control projects to FedRAMP orchestration for agencies and vendors—and built teams that achieved complex compliance outcomes for Cisco, Customs and Border Protection, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. He combines strategic vision and fiscal discipline with deep technical expertise in enterprise architecture, risk management, and process improvement (ISO-9001, SE-CMM), and is known for turning compliance frameworks into automatable, mission-enabling workflows. Based in Aldie, Virginia, he frequently bridges government and industry needs, advising FedRAMP PMO, contractors, and OSCAL tool developers on pragmatic adoption that reduces risk and accelerates authorization.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS Information Science, BS Information Science at Stockton UniversityElectrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering at Virginia Tech
Github Skills (28)
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sap10
sar10
xsd10
security10
automation10
iso10
authorization10
schematron10
yaml10
xml10
compliance10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
brianrufgsa/fedramp-automation
Dec 2019 - Feb 2021
FedRAMP Automation
Contributions:81 pushes, 20 branches in 1 year 2 months
automationfedramp
brian-ruf/OSCAL-GUI
Aug 2019 - Feb 2020
Joint NIST/FedRAMP tool to interact with OSCAL files via a browser-based GUI
Contributions:59 commits, 21 PRs, 46 pushes in 5 months
oscalpythongui-basedbrowsernist
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