Connor Gorman
Member Of Technical Staff at Prophet Security
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolConnor Gorman is a Member of Technical Staff based in San Diego with 11 years of experience building and securing cloud-native systems, particularly Kubernetes and container workloads. He has held senior engineering roles at StackRox and Red Hat, contributing to the StackRox Kubernetes Security Platform and shipping backend features such as BadgerDB utilities and alert-processing fixes. Connor blends deep systems and backend engineering with practical security expertise, moving from hands-on implementation to shaping platform-level defenses. He holds MS and BS degrees from USC in computer science and computer engineering, and has a history of internships at Microsoft and Intel that grounded his systems-level skills. Now at Prophet Security, he continues to focus on runtime security and observability while recruiting talent for fast-growing security teams. A former Red Hatter and core contributor to a well-known open-source security project, he brings both enterprise and startup perspectives to hardening cloud-native environments.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Southern California
Github Skills (11)
go10
back-end-development10
kubernetes-pods9
kubernetes9
distributed-systems8
automation8
automations8
database-design8
postgresql7
dockers7
docker7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
stackrox/stackrox
Nov 2017 - Jan 2023
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
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1380 reviews, 1856 commits, 826 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Connor was a back-end developer contributing to the StackRox Kubernetes Security Platform. Their work involved developing new functionality for the `roxctl` tool, including creating utilities for BadgerDB, specifically focusing on the rewrite and compact functionalities. They also addressed a bug in the deletion script for Sensor and fixed a defect in the alert processing pipeline.
containerscheckliststackroxsecurityrisk
connorgorman/protobuf
Feb 2019 - Dec 2023
Protocol Buffers for Go with Gadgets
Contributions:1 review, 5 PRs, 31 pushes in 4 years 10 months
golangprotocol-buffersgadgetsprotobufgrpc
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