Garret Wassermann
Software Engineer
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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RockstarGarret Wassermann is a software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in application security and cybersecurity analysis, blending practical engineering with applied mathematics. A Rust and Haskell enthusiast and Free Software advocate, he brings a security-first mindset honed through prior work tied to CERT/CC and CMU-SEI. He contributes to open-source projects—recently modernizing a popular Django helpdesk app by updating dependency management and migrating front-end templates to Bootstrap 3.3.7—demonstrating attention to maintainability, deployability, and pragmatic trade-offs like CDN toggles for static assets. Based in Pittsburgh, he combines research-grade rigor with hands-on backend development and a knack for translating security requirements into auditable code.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (7)
html10
css10
bootstra10
bootstrap10
python10
django10
javascript9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
django-helpdesk/django-helpdesk
Aug 2016 - Nov 2022
A Django application to manage tickets for an internal helpdesk. Formerly known as Jutda Helpdesk.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:32 releases, 52 reviews, 670 commits in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Garret made multiple commits focused on updating the codebase to use static copies of dependencies. They added a new setting, `HELPDESK_USE_CDN`, to toggle between using public CDNs or local static copies. The user also refactored the codebase to utilize the Bootstrap 3.3.7 framework. These changes involved modifications to HTML templates, settings files, and JavaScript to incorporate the updated framework and its dependencies.
casespythonservicedesktrackerinternal
gwasser/django-helpdesk
Feb 2016 - Oct 2024
A Django application to manage tickets for an internal helpdesk. Formerly known as Jutda Helpdesk.
Contributions:324 pushes, 51 branches, 39 tags in 8 years 9 months
pythoninternaldjangodjango-applicationhelpdesk
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