Forrest Aldridge
Senior Engineer, Product Security at CrowdStrike
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolForrest Aldridge is a Senior Engineer specializing in product security with seven years of focused experience building operationally mature web services in Python, Go, and JavaScript. Based in Austin, he has driven security-focused engineering at CrowdStrike after shaping GDPR, migration, and real-time messaging features during a multi-year tenure at Atlassian. He excels at software architecture and turning cross-functional groups into high-performing teams, pairing hands-on coding with practical operational and security practices. His background spans startups to large enterprises, leading backend/API teams and improving engineering best practices across organizations. Not obvious from his title, he combines product security with deep experience in migration and real-time systems—skills that help ensure both safe and seamless customer experiences.
7 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Management Information Systems, General, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Management Information Systems, General at Mississippi State University
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Github Skills (37)
ssl9
heartbleed9
security9
scanning9
python8
api8
sdk8
tls138
cisco6
netlink6
nexpose6
golang5
attestation5
stream5
certificate5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
asecurityteam/nexpose-scan-notifier
May 2019 - Jul 2020
Contributions:3 releases, 6 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 1 month
faldridge/gofalcon
Nov 2022 - Jun 2023
Golang-based SDK to CrowdStrike's APIs
Contributions:15 pushes, 6 branches in 7 months
golangapicrowdstrikesdk
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