Dennis B
Senior Software Engineer at Cerbos
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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RockstarDennis B is a Senior Software Engineer based in Melbourne with 10 years building scalable, cloud-native backend systems and SaaS platforms. He currently engineers at Cerbos, contributing to authorization tooling by extending policy languages and optimizing query planning for real-world access control. Prior roles include SaaS architect and lead engineer positions where he drove platform design, identity and OAuth integrations, and operational improvements for Docker and Kubernetes workflows. An active open-source contributor, he has added registry and Git/DevOps improvements to Portainer and advanced Cerbos with custom CEL functions and test fixtures. Known for bridging hands-on implementation with architectural thinking, he brings pragmatic solutions that reduce operational friction across developer and platform teams.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (21)
kubernetes10
authorizations10
docker10
portainer10
docker-compose10
policies10
containerization10
dockers10
go10
authorization10
kubernetes-pods10
access-control10
azure-devops-server9
apidoc9
azure-devops9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cerbos/cerbos
Sep 2021 - Nov 2022
Cerbos is the open core, language-agnostic, scalable authorization solution that makes user permissions and authorization simple to implement and manage by writing context-aware access control policies for your application resources.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:130 reviews, 46 commits, 142 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Dennis primarily contributed to the Cerbos project by implementing new features and enhancing existing functionalities related to access control and authorization. Their work included adding new custom CEL (Common Expression Language) functions for use in policy logic, such as list operations, and integrating support for user-defined variables within policies. The user also added support for test fixtures to facilitate testing of policies, and refactored code and optimized the query planner.
golangpolicycontext-awarescalableauthorization
portainer/portainer
May 2021 - Aug 2021
Making Docker and Kubernetes management easy.
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:14 reviews, 11 commits, 12 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Dennis contributed to the backend functionality by addressing issues with Docker Compose configuration to access private images and implementing improvements related to Git cloning for Azure repositories. Furthermore, the user added support for a ProGet registry type, indicating work on integrating with different container registry platforms. The commits demonstrate involvement in core features and system enhancements within the Portainer project, involving Docker, Kubernetes and registry management.
containersdockerfilezammaddocker-imageremote-development
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