Christopher Oakley
Senior Software Engineer at Huntress
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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RockstarChristopher Oakley is a Senior Software Engineer and full-stack architect with a decade of experience building scalable web and security-focused systems from Denver. He has led engineering teams and designed authentication and authorization layers (OAuth/OpenID/SAML) for high-traffic services using C#, .NET, JavaScript/React and cloud data stores. His recent backend work includes contributions to Ockam’s secure distributed framework—adding token lease management and tightened UDS transport access control—demonstrating practical experience with cryptographic identity and Rust-adjacent systems. Comfortable across microservices, message-based APIs, and SPA front-ends, he blends hands-on coding with architecture and test-driven practices. Colleagues rely on him to turn complex security and scalability requirements into auditable, maintainable implementations.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (12)
rust10
api10
backend10
apidoc10
authorization9
user-authentication9
distributed-systems9
key-management9
authentication9
authorizations9
influxdb8
digest-authentication6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
build-trust/ockam
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
Orchestrate end-to-end encryption, cryptographic identities, mutual authentication, and authorization policies between distributed applications – at massive scale.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:102 reviews, 17 commits, 58 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Christopher contributed to the development of the Ockam project, specifically focusing on features related to managing InfluxDB tokens and access control within the UDS transport. Their work involved adding configurations for an InfluxDB lease manager, enabling the storage and retrieval of tokens with expiry times. Additionally, the user modified access control within the UDS transport to limit incoming and outgoing access. These changes likely involved modifications to the backend logic and potentially the API structure of the Ockam framework, which includes the use of Rust.
policyenforcemente2eeidentitycredentials
CAOakleyII/cloud-jumper
Jan 2018 - Oct 2022
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
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