Cody Rose
Senior Software Engineer at Truffle Security Co.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCody Rose is a Senior Software Engineer in Philadelphia with 12 years of experience building robust, secure backend systems across finance, healthcare, and security startups. He combines hands-on engineering with a pragmatic philosophy—minimizing unnecessary human interaction with computers—while focusing on cloud architectures, web application hardening, and bespoke treasury systems. Currently at Truffle Security he contributes to the well-known truffleHog open-source project, improving secret detection and verifiers, reflecting a strong streak in security engineering. His background spans research-grade simulation and building-technology expertise from MIT to production systems at Flatiron and Värde, giving him a rare mix of academic rigor and product-focused delivery. Colleagues know him as a practical problem-solver who prefers shipping reliable, auditable solutions over flashy prototypes.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Building Technology, Master of Science (M.S.), Building Technology at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
English
Github Skills (9)
it-security10
go10
security10
protobuffer9
protobuf9
aws9
jdbc9
devsecops8
testing8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
trufflesecurity/trufflehog
Mar 2023 - Mar 2025
Find, verify, and analyze leaked credentials
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Security Engineer
Backend Developer & Security EngineerContributions:9 releases, 656 reviews, 204 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Cody primarily contributed to the backend of the TruffleHog project, focusing on enhancing secret detection and verification processes. Their work included adding new features for verification error messages and resolving issues related to the AWS verifier. The user also implemented changes to improve the JDBC detector, enhancing its functionality and security.
golangdynamic-analysisplacesecurity-toolssecurity
MITSustainableDesignLab/basilisk
Sep 2016 - Jan 2024
A library for a new building simulation data model
Contributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 20 PRs in 7 years 5 months
data-simulationpythonagent-based-modelingsimulation-frameworksimulation
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