Cong Du is a Principal Software Engineer based in San Jose with over a decade of experience designing and delivering resilient storage and cloud-native systems. He has held senior engineering and tech-lead roles across Red Hat, StackRox, Rubrik, Arista and EMC, blending systems bring-up, hardware monitoring, and large-scale backend development. At StackRox he contributed to the Kubernetes security platform’s backend and tooling—improving policy-driven analysis and enhancing roxctl image scan output—showing a practical focus on observability and operator UX. His background spans low-level system reliability (fan/power/PCI monitoring and hotplug storage controllers) to cloud-native security, and he pairs deep academic training (Ph.D. in CS) with hands-on field support and upgrade experience. Colleagues rely on him to bridge hardware realities and software design, making complex platform behaviors predictable and maintainable.
The StackRox Kubernetes Security Platform performs a risk analysis of the container environment, delivers visibility and runtime alerts, and provides recommendations to proactively improve security by hardening the environment.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:528 reviews, 136 commits, 282 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Cong primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the StackRox Kubernetes Security Platform by implementing new features related to container name-based policy criteria and removing the priority from the risk deployment filter. They also added CSV and pretty print formatting to the roxctl image scan output, enhancing the tool's usability. Furthermore, they made modifications to the database backup processes, adding certificate backup functionality and fixing an issue with the database restore format.
Contributions:6 PRs, 5 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 6 months
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