Dustin Decker
Co-Founder at Truffle Security Co.
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDustin Decker is a security-focused software engineer and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience, currently co-founding Truffle Security in San Jose. He brings practical application security expertise from senior roles at Cruise and Indeed, and a track record of building backend tooling that finds and manages secrets at scale. Dustin contributes to notable open-source projects such as trufflehog (credential discovery) and elastic/curator (Elasticsearch index management), where he implemented CLI, detectors, protobuf data structures, and flexible filtering behavior. Trained as a mechanical engineering technologist, he pairs systems thinking with hands-on coding to turn complex security problems into reliable, auditable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Mechanical Engineering Technology, Bachelor’s Degree Mechanical Engineering Technology at Rochester Institute of Technology
Github Skills (20)
python10
security-txt10
amazon-elasticsearch10
secret-management10
security10
elasticsearchquery10
go10
aws-elasticsearch10
elasticsearch10
credentials10
security-scan10
index-management10
elasticsearch-api10
protocol-buffers9
testing9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
trufflesecurity/trufflehog
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Find, verify, and analyze leaked credentials
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:135 releases, 954 reviews, 183 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Dustin's initial contribution involved setting up the command-line interface (CLI) and implementing the Git source with a demo detector, indicating a focus on the core functionality of the credential finding tool. They worked on defining data structures with Protocol Buffers to handle credential information within the system. Furthermore, the addition of new detectors for various services and tokens, along with a focus on security, suggests a role in building the backend for identifying and validating secrets, enhancing the tool's capabilities to identify and protect against leaked credentials.
golangdynamic-analysisplacesecurity-toolssecurity
elastic/curator
Sep 2017 - Oct 2017
Curator: Tending your Elasticsearch indices
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 9 comments in 19 days
Contributions summary:Dustin focused on enhancing the functionality of the `curator` tool, specifically within the index management features. Their work included adding support for a `threshold_behavior` setting to the space filter, allowing for more flexible index filtering based on disk space. This involved modifying core files related to index lists, defaults, and testing to ensure the changes functioned correctly. The user also updated the documentation to reflect the new functionality, contributing to user understanding and usability.
elasticsearch-clientcuratorindiceselasticsearch
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