Caleb Brown
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Wollongong City Council, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolCaleb Brown is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience, currently at Google, who builds reliable back-end systems and production infrastructure across Python, Go, Java and mobile platforms. He combines deep systems knowledge—databases (Postgres/MySQL), caching, and CI/CD—with hands-on contributions to high-profile open-source security projects like OpenSSF Scorecard and the OSV vulnerability scanner. At Google he advanced cron/monitoring and data pipelines and in open source improved OAuth and repo-criticality tooling, demonstrating both security-aware design and practical DevOps skills. His background spans leadership and full-stack roles at major Australian media and commerce companies, giving him a pragmatic product focus alongside engineering rigor. Caleb also holds a Security Engineer Nanodegree and has a demonstrated knack for improving observability and serialization models that quietly reduce operational friction.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Science at University of New South WalesSecurity Engineer Nanodegree, Security Engineer Nanodegree at Udacity
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (39)
cron10
authorizations10
bigquery10
python10
security-txt10
vulnerability-scanners10
data-modeling10
command-line-interface10
authentication10
user-authentication10
schema-design10
security10
gcp10
go10
github-api10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ossf/criticality_score
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
Gives criticality score for an open source project
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:6 releases, 297 reviews, 102 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Caleb primarily contributed to the development of a Go-based command-line tool for enumerating GitHub repositories. Their work focused on implementing features for retrieving project URLs based on star count and date ranges, demonstrating back-end development skills in Go. The user also focused on setting up infrastructure, including build pipelines to aid in the productionization of the project. The user improved the logging system and added a text-based format, reflecting the user's involvement in different aspects of development.
open-source-projectcriticality
ossf/scorecard
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
OpenSSF Scorecard - Security health metrics for Open Source
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 7 commits, 9 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Caleb primarily contributed to the project by enhancing the cron job functionality and improving the codebase's infrastructure and monitoring capabilities. They introduced a configuration variable for the Stackdriver prefix and generalized transfer logic within the data package, making the system more flexible. In addition, the user refactored and moved the cron monitoring code to a non-internal location, enabling its reuse by other components. Furthermore, the user updated the code, ensuring that data writes to the raw bucket occur only when a value exists.
openssfsecurityscorecardopenssf-scorecard
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