Charlie Egan
Open Source & Developer Relations
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolCharlie Egan is an Open Source and Developer Relations engineer based in London with 12 years of experience focused on Kubernetes and cloud-native security, particularly authentication and authorization. As a maintainer on the widely used Open Policy Agent project, he has contributed core built-ins and usability improvements that broaden policy expressiveness and crypto handling. He has moved between hands-on engineering and advocacy roles at Jetstack and Styra before joining Apple's open source & developer relations team, blending technical depth with community-facing communication. Charlie combines backend engineering chops—designing built-in policy functions and nested-object handling—with a knack for translating complex security primitives into usable tools for developers. His background suggests a pragmatic approach to security: improving developer workflows by shaping both code and community.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Aberdeen
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Github Skills (16)
json10
go10
authorization9
develop9
authorizations9
api8
apidoc8
testing7
google-kubernetes-engine6
rego6
gcloud6
ruby6
open-policy-agent6
ruby-on-rails6
procfile6
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
open-policy-agent/opa
Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
Open Policy Agent (OPA) is an open source, general-purpose policy engine.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:308 reviews, 20 commits, 228 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Charlie primarily contributed to the development of built-in functions within the Open Policy Agent project. Their work involved adding new functionalities, such as `semver.compare`, `is_valid`, and support for PEM-formatted data in crypto built-ins. They also modified object.get to support nested key arrays and made various improvements, including updating documentation and the introduction of code for showing all built-in errors. These modifications enhanced the functionality and flexibility of the policy engine.
policycompliancedogepoliciescloud-native
charlieegan3/travel-turbine
Nov 2013 - Apr 2015
Contributions:59 commits, 1 push in 1 year 5 months
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