Gabriel Becker
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
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Top SchoolGabriel Becker is a Principal Software Engineer based in Bologna with a decade of experience building secure, production-grade systems and automation at Red Hat. He blends deep security domain expertise—contributing to prominent open-source projects like OpenSCAP and ComplianceAsCode—with hands-on cloud and infrastructure work, including AWS CloudFormation and Ansible-driven lab environments. Gabriel’s background spans core validation and test automation (XML/XCCDF/OVAL), security content tooling in Python, and pragmatic cloud networking and DNS configurations, reflecting both product-facing and platform-level impact. Known for turning compliance requirements into maintainable tooling, he brings a researcher’s attention to correctness together with pragmatic engineering for operations.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Computer Science, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
English
Github Skills (25)
ec10
route5310
cap10
python10
testing10
bash10
cloud-infrastructure10
security-automation10
openscap10
amazon-ec210
aws-cloudformation10
aac10
yaml10
ansible10
xml10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ComplianceAsCode/content
Dec 2018 - Dec 2022
Security automation content in SCAP, Bash, Ansible, and other formats
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:1125 reviews, 1567 commits, 1006 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Gabriel primarily contributed to the development of security automation content, specifically focusing on SCAP, Bash, and Ansible. Their work included the creation of a tool for comparing rules from YAML profiles, updating messages in the profile diff tool, and refactoring the tool to use the ssg python modules. They also enhanced the profile statistics tool, generating HTML output with links to missing content, and incorporated other improvements to the tools used for security content development.
compliancecpescapsecurity-hardeningnessus
RedHatDemos/SecurityDemos
Apr 2019 - Apr 2020
Role in this project:Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:75 commits, 33 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Gabriel's commits primarily involve modifications to an AWS CloudFormation template. These changes focus on configuring cloud infrastructure resources, particularly within the context of an Ansible Tower lab environment. The code modifications reflect adjustments to network configurations, DNS records, and security group settings. The user is focused on EC2 instance configurations and related cloud resource definitions.
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