Florin Coada
Product Manager at GitHub
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolFlorin Coada is a Product Manager based in London with 8 years of experience at the intersection of software engineering and application security. He has progressed from hands-on roles in testing and security sales at IBM to product leadership at HCL AppScan and currently GitHub, where he works on developer-focused security products. Comfortable shipping technical change, he contributes to high-profile open-source security tooling like CodeQL—primarily documenting and maintaining CLI and query pack releases—bringing practical knowledge of secure development workflows. Trained in Games Technology, he pairs a developer’s curiosity with a security-first product mindset, often translating complex technical details into clear product features and changelogs.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Highschool, Programming and Maths, Highschool, Programming and Maths at B. P. HasdeuBachelor of Science (BSc), Games Technology, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Games Technology at Coventry University
French, Romanian, English
Github Skills (7)
codeql10
documentation10
command-line9
cli9
command-line-utility9
command-line-interface9
cl9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
github/codeql
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
CodeQL: the libraries and queries that power security researchers around the world, as well as code scanning in GitHub Advanced Security
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:35 reviews, 1 commit, 49 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Florin's commits primarily focus on releasing changelogs for various CodeQL CLI versions, which involves documenting updates, bug fixes, and new features related to the CodeQL codebase. This includes changes in the CodeQL CLI, query packs, and language libraries. The user contributes to the documentation of code changes in the CLI and the associated query packs.
github-advanced-securitysecurity-toolsgithub-security-labsecurity-researcherssecurity
coadaflorin/appscan_api_Demo
Oct 2019 - Apr 2025
A small vulnerable api for AppScan demos
Contributions:33 PRs, 110 pushes, 39 branches in 5 years 6 months
vulnerableapisecurityappscanvulnerable-api
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