James Droste
Principal Security Engineer at Workday
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolJames Droste is a Principal Security Engineer with 13 years of experience securing large-scale cloud environments and leading automation-driven responses to complex incidents. Currently at Workday after a multi-year tenure at AWS, he has been a founding member of consolidated Threat Intelligence Engineering and routinely builds tooling and analytics that amplify global incident response capabilities. Known for "running towards the fire," he combines hands-on incident remediation with durable automation to prevent repeat events and mentor on-call teams. An active open-source contributor, he has applied backend refactoring skills to community projects like the widely noticed PokemonGo-Bot, demonstrating a pragmatic blend of security, engineering, and code stewardship. Based in Los Angeles, he brings both operational rigor and a developer’s discipline to hard security problems.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at University at Buffalo
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Github Skills (12)
bots10
script10
pokemongo10
python10
googlebot10
automation9
automations9
git7
cakephp6
php6
database-design6
mysql6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
PokemonGoF/PokemonGo-Bot
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
The Pokemon Go Bot, baking with community.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 28 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 day
Contributions summary:James primarily focused on refactoring and cleaning up the codebase, as evident by the numerous "Cleaning up" and "Moving resources" commits. They modified core bot logic within `bot.py` and `pokecli.py`, suggesting they worked on the backend functionalities of the Pokemon Go bot. Additionally, they integrated encoding settings and addressed merge conflicts, further indicating their involvement in maintaining the project's codebase.
pythonpokemongofdiscordbotdiscord-bot
ubnetdef/ie2
Nov 2016 - Dec 2018
Contributions:2 releases, 12 PRs, 249 pushes in 2 years
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