Chris Gillespie
Senior Security Software Engineer at Netflix
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolChris Gillespie is a Senior Security Software Engineer in San Francisco with a decade of experience architecting backend systems to detect and mitigate large-scale spam, fraud, and malware attacks. He blends deep data engineering skills—Spark, Flink, ETL, and big data pipelines—with hands-on development in Java, Python, and Rust to build reliable, production-grade defenses. At Netflix he leads strategic security efforts informed by earlier roles at Zendesk, Pinterest, and Google, bringing both investigative analyst experience and software engineering rigor. An active open-source contributor, he has improved command-line tooling and performance in the high-profile Nushell project, favoring pragmatic enhancements like statistical functions and faster file operations. Colleagues rely on him for turning complex threat signals into scalable, auditable systems and for mentoring cross-functional teams on production safety. Outside work he channels curiosity into Rust OSS contributions, often focusing on performance and developer ergonomics.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BS Information Systems, BS Information Systems at Xavier University
Spanish, English, Japanese
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Github Skills (15)
sh10
command-line-interface10
automation10
script10
automations10
rust10
shell10
scripting10
command-line10
cli10
algorithms8
data-structures8
algorithm8
testing8
data-structure8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
nushell/nushell
Aug 2020 - Jan 2021
A new type of shell
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer / Automation EngineerContributions:7 reviews, 44 commits, 50 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the `nushell/nushell` shell, contributing to areas such as math and command-line utilities. Their work involved adding and modifying commands related to mathematical operations (stddev, variance) and file size calculations. Moreover, the user improved the shell's features, including enhancements to the `ls` command, adding examples to the `uniq` command, and making boolean creations simpler, and also improved the performance and functionality of the shell.
rusttype-ofshellbash
gillespiecd/LiteRoomJS
May 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:29 commits, 22 pushes, 3 branches in 22 days
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