Jamie Strandboge
Staff Security Engineer at InfluxData
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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RockstarJamie Strandboge is a Staff Security Engineer with 13 years of experience building and hardening Linux and cloud-native systems, currently leading security efforts at InfluxData from Austin. He combines deep product-side security engineering—patching JWT vulnerabilities and enforcing access controls in the widely used InfluxDB datastore—with a background securing Ubuntu at Canonical across engineering, management, and senior-staff roles. Jamie is comfortable shipping low-level fixes in Go and Python runtime improvements, and he brings a pragmatic blend of hands-on coding and architectural thinking to reduce attack surface in production services. Notably, his contributions to InfluxDB demonstrate an emphasis on authoritative access checks for critical query operations, reflecting an approach that balances usability with robust permission models.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (18)
go-modules10
it-security10
user-authentication10
authentication10
security10
go10
access-control10
influxdb10
admin9
python9
database-administration9
databases9
database9
api8
apim8
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
influxdata/influxdb
Jul 2021 - Dec 2022
Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:126 reviews, 34 commits, 150 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Jamie primarily focused on enhancing the security and robustness of the InfluxDB codebase, particularly concerning access control and authentication. They addressed a vulnerability related to JWT validation by upgrading the `golang-jwt` library. Furthermore, they implemented access checks for critical InfluxQL queries like `DELETE` and `DROP MEASUREMENT`, ensuring write permissions were enforced. The user also made several modifications related to the processing engine and python runtime, specifically the venv and pip packages for Python.
real-time-analyticsscalablereactanalyticsevents
influxdata/iot-api-ui
Jan 2023 - Jan 2025
Common React UI for iot-api-<js, python, etc.> example apps designed for InfluxDB client library tutorials.
Contributions:6 reviews, 8 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 11 months
pythoninfluxdatareact-uiinfluxdb-js-clientinfluxdb-client
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