James Stronz
Senior Cloud Security Engineer at ResMed
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Stronz is a Senior Cloud Security Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience securing cloud-native environments and CI/CD pipelines, currently shaping EKS and AWS organization risk posture at ResMed. He blends offensive discovery (finding and remediating high-impact CVEs) with pragmatic defenses—threat modeling, IAM tuning to reduce alert fatigue, and prioritization using EPSS/CVSS—so teams can act on what matters. His background includes building Terraform modules, Go log parsers, and SIEM integrations across AWS/GCP/Azure, plus earlier DevSecOps and vulnerability research work that produced real-world fixes and detection strategies. An active contributor to open-source Python tooling (notably improving reliability in the rpyc RPC library), he pairs a mathematics degree from UIUC with an engineer’s attention to reliable, testable systems. Notably, he favors simplicity as sophistication, repeatedly turning complex security gaps into actionable, auditable mitigations.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (5)
unit-testing10
rpc10
python-lib10
python10
network-programming9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
tomerfiliba-org/rpyc
May 2019 - Nov 2022
RPyC (Remote Python Call) - A transparent and symmetric RPC library for python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 releases, 258 commits, 52 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:James extended unit testing for attribute access within the `rpyc/core/protocol.py` and `rpyc/core/stream.py` files, demonstrating a focus on improving the reliability and robustness of the RPyC library. They also made minor style cleanups across various core files and library modules. The changes include modifications to protocol, core, and library files.
pythonrpc-libraryrpyc
comrumino/deveta
Mar 2017 - Dec 2019
Contributions:3 releases, 49 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
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