Earl Sampson
Senior Software Engineer at SUSE
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEarl Sampson is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of focused experience, currently driving security and systems hardening work at SUSE after a long tenure at Hewlett-Packard. He specializes in security automation for Linux—contributing to the well-regarded ComplianceAsCode project by adding STIG-based checks and remediations for SUSE Linux Enterprise, and routinely authoring shell and configuration changes to enforce account, audit, and hardening policies. Comfortable across kernel-adjacent tooling and engineering processes, he combines product-focused development with practical security engineering to deliver auditable, reproducible controls. A Harvard-trained engineer based in Shreveport, Louisiana, he brings enterprise-grade discipline from decades in industry to open-source security content and platform reliability.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Engineering/Computer Science, BA, Engineering/Computer Science at Harvard UniversityTF Riggs High School, Pierre, SD
Github Skills (17)
security-hardening10
bash10
security-automation10
bash-shell10
script10
ansible10
compliance10
sh10
ansible-galaxy10
sles10
shell10
cap9
openscap9
audit9
sca9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ComplianceAsCode/content
Feb 2021 - Oct 2022
Security automation content in SCAP, Bash, Ansible, and other formats
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:102 reviews, 140 commits, 72 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Earl primarily focuses on enhancing the security posture of SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLES) systems within the repository. They added and updated checks and remediations related to various Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) for SLES 12 and 15. Their work involves modifying shell scripts and configuration files to enforce security policies, including areas like account security, auditing, and system hardening. They also contribute to the structure and functionality of the security automation content.
compliancecpescapsecurity-hardeningnessus
ArdanaCLM/ardana-dev-tools
Oct 2017 - Mar 2022
Contributions:34 commits in 4 years 6 months
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