Ellis Wright
Senior Software Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolEllis Wright is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of practical experience building backend and security-focused systems from Fort Collins, Colorado. He has deep Linux, object-oriented and scripting language expertise and a track record hardening secret-management infrastructure—most notably improving Conjur’s binary secret handling, body-parser security, and OIDC integration. At CyberArk he progressed from intern to senior engineer and now brings that product and security experience to Palo Alto Networks. Ellis pairs algorithmic thinking from his CS background with hands-on engineering, test automation (Cucumber), and pragmatic refactors that reduce vulnerabilities. He’s comfortable shipping APIs and manufacturing-floor tooling alike, demonstrating breadth across security-sensitive enterprise software and operational systems.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Computer Science, Bachelors, Computer Science at Rochester Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (18)
api-rest10
back-end-development10
api-design10
restful-api10
it-security10
secret-management10
security10
rest-api10
cucumber-js9
cucumber-java9
cucumber-jvm9
cucumber9
base64-encoding8
error-handling8
json-parser7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cyberark/conjur
Dec 2020 - Nov 2022
CyberArk Conjur automatically secures secrets used by privileged users and machine identities
Role in this project:
Back-end & Security Engineer
Back-end & Security EngineerContributions:1 release, 29 reviews, 89 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Ellis primarily focused on enhancing the security and functionality of the Conjur secrets management platform. They addressed vulnerabilities in the body parser, improved the handling of binary secrets within the system, and updated the authentication process. The user also implemented cucumber tests for binary secret handling. Furthermore, they refactored the code to integrate with OIDC, fixing issues and updating error handling.
secret-managementsecuritymachine-identityconjbot-notifycyberark
cyberark/conjur-openapi-spec
Nov 2020 - May 2022
OpenAPI v3 specification for Conjur / DAP v10+
Contributions:130 reviews, 185 commits, 91 PRs in 1 year 6 months
redocconjur-corev10oasspecification
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