Summary
Brie Carranza is a seasoned technical support engineer and security-minded systems operator with over a decade of experience helping organizations deploy and stabilize complex infrastructure, from on-call incident response to large-scale GitLab and HPC environments. With a Master’s in Cybersecurity from Carnegie Mellon, she blends rigorous root-cause analysis with collaborative leadership, mentoring engineers and driving cross-functional initiatives that influence product and process improvements. Brie is an active open-source contributor and maintainer of several "awesome" curated lists (kinesis, ldap, ransomware), bringing practical documentation and tooling fixes to projects like GitLab and sqlmap. Her background spans hands-on UNIX/HPC administration, incident response, and CI/Omnibus/Kubernetes troubleshooting, and she often translates research interests—interplanetary networking, ransomware, and privacy policy—into pragmatic improvements for production systems.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Information Technology, BS Information Technology at Slippery Rock University
Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Carnegie Mellon University - Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy