Edward Delaporte
Manager, Cybersecurity Development And Assurance at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana-Champaign Area United States
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Top SchoolEdward Delaporte is a cybersecurity-focused software engineering manager with over two decades of hands-on programming experience and 13 years in leadership roles, currently leading Cybersecurity Development and Assurance at the University of Illinois. He builds and mentors teams that deliver secure, scalable application architectures and pragmatic SDLC practices, blending deep application security knowledge with data lifecycle management. His background spans academia, fintech, and research environments—where he has driven automation, authentication, and encryption efforts—and includes hands-on work in Python, Django, and legacy systems. An active contributor to open-source documentation, he improved developer workflows for the widely used Kivy UI framework, reflecting a knack for making complex tooling more approachable. Edward’s approach pairs continuous learning (he still thinks BASIC is cool) with a talent for turning skilled engineers into high-performing teams that ship reliable, auditable systems.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (10)
restructuredtext10
python10
kivy10
documentation10
ui-design8
wif6
vim6
asp-net-mvc6
linux5
macos5
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
kivy/kivy
Oct 2012 - Apr 2013
Open source UI framework written in Python, running on Windows, Linux, macOS, Android and iOS
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:6 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Edward primarily contributed to the Kivy project's documentation. They expanded the "Documentation Contributions" section, clarifying contribution workflows, dependencies, and build processes. They also corrected incorrect links within the installation documentation for macOS and Linux. Additionally, they improved code examples in the guide by adding section titles, highlighting the filename for added clarity.
pythonlinux-windowswindowsui-frameworklinux
edthedev/edthedev.github.io
Jul 2015 - Nov 2022
Ed The Dev's website
Contributions:782 commits, 29 PRs, 1171 pushes in 7 years 5 months
javascriptnextjsreactdev
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