Charles Heywood
Information Security Engineer
Port Saint Lucie, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCharles Heywood is an information security engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience, currently a founding team member at Distrust where he builds core tooling like Keyfork, Icepick, and StageX while supporting audits and infrastructure deployment. He writes production code in Rust, Lua, and Python and brings a practical SecOps mindset to secure tooling and platform reliability. Based in Port Saint Lucie, Florida, he combines developer-first engineering with operational security, focusing on auditable, deployable solutions rather than theoretical designs. An active open-source maintainer and professional IRCv3 nitpicker, he contributes to community protocols and reproducible tooling. Notably, he authors Keyfork, signaling a preference for building opinionated, security-first developer tools that scale with team needs.
11 years of coding experience
High School Diploma, HIGH SCHOOL/SECONDARY DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES, 12, High School Diploma, HIGH SCHOOL/SECONDARY DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES, 12 at Augusta High School
English
Github Skills (200)
autocomplete10
perl10
vim10
chat10
linter10
k8s10
weechat10
irc-bot10
matrix10
api10
luadoc10
irc-server10
aptos10
sui10
low-latency10
Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
ircdocs/best-practices
Nov 2018 - Sep 2020
best practices for IRC software
Contributions:8 commits, 6 pushes in 1 year 10 months
actsaslirc-protocolirc-serverirc
hashbang/podcast
Mar 2020 - Aug 2020
Unnamed Podcast
Contributions:20 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
podcast
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