Brian Sipos
Software Engineer at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Rockville, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Sipos is a software engineer with a decade of experience designing and integrating secure, maintainable systems and interfaces across defense and research environments. Based in Rockville, MD, he brings deep systems engineering roots from Lockheed Martin and a decade at RKF Engineering before joining Johns Hopkins APL, where he focuses on robust component reuse and standards-driven design. He pairs hands-on implementation skills with infrastructure and DevOps know-how, having led network, security, and test automation efforts as well as mission-computer integrations for aircraft. An active contributor to open-source tooling, he added a COSE dissector and CBOR sequence support to the widely used Wireshark project, reflecting an attention to protocol standards and low-level interoperability.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electrical Engineering specializing in Computer Engineering, BS, Electrical Engineering specializing in Computer Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology
Github Skills (5)
cbor10
wireshark10
packet-capture9
tshark9
c-programming8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
wireshark/wireshark
May 2021 - Oct 2022
Read-only mirror of Wireshark's Git repository at https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark. You're welcome to submit pull requests there.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Brian contributed a COSE dissector for the Wireshark project. The work involved implementing routines for dissecting CBOR Object Signing and Encryption (COSE) data, referencing RFCs and handling different encoding types. They also added support for CBOR sequence dissection to the project. Further contributions include improvements to TCPCL dissectors.
wiresharkpacket-capturetsharkstratoshark
BrianSipos/dtn-demo-agent
Dec 2020 - Apr 2026
Python implementation of basic BPv7-related protocols
Contributions:17 PRs, 119 pushes, 21 branches in 5 years 4 months
pythondtndtn-bpbistcp-ip
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