Corvin Mcpherson
Senior Cyber Engineer at Nightwing
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCorvin Mcpherson is a Senior Cyber Engineer based in the Austin area with 11 years of experience blending cybersecurity research, DevOps, and backend engineering. He holds BS and MS degrees from Georgia Tech and has bridged academia and industry as a researcher and practitioner, founding BitAssassin to translate security research into practical tooling. Corvin contributes to major open-source infrastructure work—enhancing SaltStack’s core Python API and configuration templating—to improve job control and templating robustness at scale. His background spans hands-on DevOps, threat research, and product-focused engineering, giving him a pragmatic lens on secure, automatable infrastructure. Known for correcting documentation and configuration edge cases, he brings meticulous attention to operational detail as well as systems-level design. Currently at Nightwing, he focuses on hardening systems and driving secure, scalable automation.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
English, Spanish
Github Skills (8)
infrastructure-as-code10
configuration-management10
jinjava10
python10
documentation9
remote-execution9
automation8
cloud-manager8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
saltstack/salt
Jul 2017 - Oct 2017
Software to automate the management and configuration of infrastructure and applications at scale.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 6 PRs, 16 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Corvin contributed to the SaltStack project by implementing and fixing functionalities within the core Python API. They added support for batch_wait in the Python API, improving job control and execution. Furthermore, the user addressed documentation inconsistencies, specifically correcting the configuration examples for engine modules and fixing format errors. They also added Jinja line statement and comment options to master configurations.
pythonzeromqevent-streaminfrastructure-managementcloud-providers
CorvinM/salt
Jul 2017 - Aug 2023
Contributions:22 pushes, 38 branches, 1 tag in 6 years 2 months
saltdevopsinfrastructuredockerscale
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