Genevieve Luyt
Staff Security Engineer at Shopify
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolGenevieve Luyt is a Staff Security Engineer at Shopify with 11 years of software engineering experience and a background in full-stack development. She blends a passion for building software with a strong focus on security, recently contributing security audit checks for AppArmor and Seccomp to the popular kubeaudit project. At Shopify she progressed from intern to staff engineer, demonstrating both hands-on coding and increasing technical leadership. Based in Canada and trained in software engineering at the University of Victoria, she thrives on learning and tackling evolving challenges in cloud-native environments. Colleagues rely on her to improve code quality and maintainability through pragmatic refactors and thoughtful tooling improvements. She brings a pragmatic curiosity to security engineering—preferring concrete audits and automated checks that make systems safer in production.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Software Engineering (BSeng), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Software Engineering (BSeng), Computer Software Engineering at University of VictoriaHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Claremont Secondary
English, Dutch
Github Skills (11)
audit10
kubernetes10
go10
auditing10
audit-logging10
code-auditing10
kubernetes-pods10
audit-trail10
seccomp9
apparmor9
container9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/kubeaudit
Sep 2018 - Jun 2022
kubeaudit helps you audit your Kubernetes clusters against common security controls
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:18 releases, 135 reviews, 64 commits in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Genevieve primarily contributed to the security auditing features of the `kubeaudit` project. Their work involved adding new audit checks for AppArmor and Seccomp, enhancing the tool's ability to detect security vulnerabilities in Kubernetes deployments. Additionally, the user refactored code, corrected typos, and improved the quality of the project's codebase through comment adjustments and type comment rephrasing. These changes directly improved the functionality and maintainability of the project.
golangsecurity-controlsauditsecurityclusters
genevieveluyt/MultiplayerCardGames
Sep 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:43 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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