Bryan Steele
Developer at OpenBSD
Belleville, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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SeniorBryan Steele is a seasoned developer with 14 years focused on OpenBSD and Unix-like systems, currently contributing to the OpenBSD project from Belleville, Ontario. He blends pragmatic, low-level systems work with a tinkerer’s curiosity, favoring correctness and simplicity over bells and whistles. Known for deep familiarity with OpenBSD internals, he brings hands-on experience in maintaining secure, minimalist system components. Colleagues value his quietly effective approach—deliberate, reliable, and unconcerned with hype. Outside of core contributions, he explores adjacent Unix tooling and practical hacks that improve day-to-day operability.
14 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (17)
system-programming10
hardware-interface10
c1110
integrations10
openbsd10
c1710
system-integration10
debug9
debugging9
pci9
libpcap8
kernel-mode8
kernel8
sys7
embedded7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
brynet/unveilro
Jun 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:19 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
brynet/file
Apr 2015 - Nov 2022
A portable version of OpenBSD's privsep/sandboxed file(1) utility
Contributions:6 releases, 1 review, 174 commits in 7 years 7 months
seccompsecuritylinuxsandboxbsd
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