Eric Crist
Director Of Security at OpenVPN Community Project
Nashwauk, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolEric Crist is a Director of Security with 13 years of enterprise technology and security leadership experience, currently steering global infrastructure and security at Walleye Capital. He combines hands-on systems engineering—Unix/Linux operations, network/security architecture, and build/release automation—with people and program leadership across distributed teams. A long-time maintainer and contributor to the OpenVPN community (notably Easy-RSA), he brings practical cross-platform DevOps skills and a deep understanding of PKI and secure tooling. His background spans embedded product cybersecurity, large-scale system integration, and on-the-ground physical security operations, reflecting a rare blend of IT, security installation, and emergency-response experience. Based in rural Minnesota, he also runs small businesses and community organizations, demonstrating operational versatility and an owner-operator mindset.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Certification Cisco Certified Network Associate, Certification Cisco Certified Network Associate at KRS Computer & Business
French, Russian
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Github Skills (16)
windows10
sh10
script10
cross-platform10
shell10
windows-xp10
multiplatform10
scripting10
build-automation10
packaging9
git6
filtering6
indexing6
subset6
dataframe6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
OpenVPN/easy-rsa
Jun 2012 - Jan 2023
easy-rsa - Simple shell based CA utility
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Build & Release Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Build & Release EngineerContributions:20 releases, 1 review, 446 commits in 10 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Eric focused on improving the build and release process for the Easy-RSA project. Their commits primarily involved modifications to the `build-dist.sh` script, which packages the project for distribution. The user implemented changes to include Windows utilities, manage file paths and file conversions, and enhance the build automation with Windows specific binaries. The contributions demonstrate a strong understanding of build automation and cross-platform compatibility.
rsassleasy-rsassl-certificatesimple-shell
ecrist/ssl-admin
Feb 2017 - Nov 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 6 commits, 5 pushes in 5 years 9 months
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