Bryan Dragon
Senior Software Engineer at Netflix
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBryan Dragon is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building secure, production-grade systems across companies from startups to tech giants, currently at Netflix after a senior tenure at GitHub. He blends backend engineering and security focus—evidenced by contributions to Dependabot’s core where he implemented an npm vulnerability auditor to harden dependency updates. Comfortable across the stack, Bryan has moved between roles in web, UI, and backend engineering at Apple, Wunder, and others, shipping practical solutions in high-impact environments. Based in the New York City area, he pairs a liberal arts background in Political Science and Spanish with deep technical chops, bringing clear communication and cross-disciplinary thinking to complex engineering problems.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Political Science; Spanish, Bachelor of Arts - BA Political Science; Spanish at Williams College
French, Spanish
Github Skills (13)
dependency-manager10
dependency-management10
javascript10
nodejs10
npm10
scanning10
dependency-analysis10
vulnerability-scanners10
ruby9
docker4
dockers4
rust3
go3
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
dependabot/dependabot-core
May 2022 - Nov 2022
🤖 Dependabot's core logic for creating update PRs.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 198 reviews, 76 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Bryan primarily contributed to Dependabot's core logic by implementing a vulnerability auditor for npm packages. Their work involved creating a vulnerability auditor, integrating it into the update checker, and modifying the native helper to return the desired format. The user also made improvements to the helper to return a desired format, which involved calling Arborist's audit function twice and updating docs. The user's contributions aimed at improving the security of dependency updates.
dependenciespythonelmorgslogic
bdragon/dedup
Mar 2020 - Aug 2021
Command-line utility for detecting duplicate files
Contributions:3 releases, 2 PRs, 20 pushes in 1 year 5 months
duplicatecommand-line-utilityduplicate-filesdetectingcli
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