Drew Bonasera
Staff Security Engineer at Google
McLean, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDrew Bonasera is a Staff Security Engineer with 11 years of experience, currently driving security initiatives at Google from McLean, Virginia. He blends deep hands-on technical skills with a background in information security and forensics from RIT, focusing on robust, defensible systems at scale. Drew contributes to practical open-source tooling—most notably improving PiShrink to make Raspberry Pi images smaller, more reliable, and resilient to filesystem corruption—which underscores his aptitude for systems hardening and tooling reliability. His work emphasizes operational safety and automation, adding safeguards and compression options that benefit diverse deployment workflows. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he brings both incident-aware security thinking and systems-administration fluency to complex engineering problems.
11 years of coding experience
B.S, Information Security and Forensics, B.S, Information Security and Forensics at Rochester Institute of Technology
English, Sign languages, Korean
Github Skills (12)
system-administration10
sh10
script10
bash10
shell10
raspberry-pi10
scripting10
gzip8
dockers7
docker7
automations7
automation7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Drewsif/PiShrink
Apr 2016 - Aug 2021
Make your pi images smaller!
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & System Administrator
DevOps Engineer & System AdministratorContributions:3 releases, 66 commits, 48 PRs in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Drew primarily focused on improving the reliability and functionality of the `pishrink` script. They added safety checks, corrected errors, and introduced options for image manipulation, including an option to repair filesystem corruption and gzip compression. Additionally, the user made changes to the image's auto-expanding functionality, enhancing its robustness and compatibility across different Raspberry Pi images.
raspberry-pisd-cardpythonpi-imagesmaller
Drewsif/OpenVPN-Config-Generator
Nov 2014 - Jan 2017
Contributions:29 commits, 10 pushes, 3 comments in 2 years 1 month
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