Jim Bishopp
Director Of Engineering at Teleport
Laguna Beach, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarJim Bishopp is a seasoned Director of Engineering with 11 years of software experience and a decade of remote-first development, known for architecting highly scalable, low-latency distributed systems. He built a subsecond, algorithmic trading platform handling thousands of securities and 200M market data messages per day, and was the first engineer at a fintech startup that exited within two years. At Teleport he blends hands-on backend and security engineering—contributing fixes for insecure RNG, goroutine leaks, race conditions, and GCP client certificate integrations to a widely used open-source infrastructure project. Skilled across Go, Scala/Java, C#, C/C++, JavaScript, and SQL, he pairs rigorous attention to detail with practical product delivery. Based in Laguna Beach, he brings both startup grit and enterprise-grade reliability to teams shipping mission-critical systems.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (14)
golang10
go10
database-access10
ssh10
security10
networking9
postgresql9
overflow9
kubernetes-pods7
kubernetes7
html6
css6
google-chrome6
scala6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
gravitational/teleport
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
The easiest, and most secure way to access and protect all of your infrastructure.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:307 reviews, 57 commits, 149 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Jim's commits primarily focus on improving the security and stability of the Teleport platform. They addressed vulnerabilities related to insecure random number generation and goroutine leaks, implementing fixes in core components. Furthermore, the user contributed to critical areas like client certificate authentication for GCP Cloud SQL, which enhanced the security posture of the database access feature. They also worked on improving the multiplexer and fixing race conditions in the tests, demonstrating a focus on secure, reliable backend systems.
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jimbish/goo
Nov 2017 - Oct 2019
Contributions:56 pushes, 3 branches, 2 tags in 1 year 11 months
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