John Northrup
Sr. Security Engineer at GitHub
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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RockstarJohn Northrup is a senior security engineer with 11 years of professional experience and a two-decade-long career in infrastructure and production engineering. He currently secures platforms at GitHub after shaping resilient infrastructure as a staff platform engineer at Ripple and as a senior production engineer at GitLab. His background ranges from hands-on systems administration at Vanderbilt to architecting global infrastructure for Kroll and HireRight, giving him deep operational fluency across large-scale, regulated environments. John blends security-first thinking with pragmatic platform engineering, focusing on reliability, incident readiness, and scalable controls. Based in Nashville, he brings institutional knowledge of enterprise risk mitigation and a track record of evolving systems from legacy operations to modern cloud-native practices.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
36reputation
97reached
2answers
0questions
Github Skills (200)
web-application10
vim10
cryptocurrency10
chat10
automation10
http-client10
nvim10
cpp10
ledger10
data-model10
api10
home-automation10
json10
in-memory10
apache10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
northrup/halyard
Feb 2020 - Aug 2021
A tool for configuring, installing, and updating Spinnaker
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
installingupdatingspinnaker
northrup/issue_testing
Aug 2022 - Sep 2022
Issue Template Testing
Contributions:24 PRs, 16 pushes, 25 branches in 1 month
testingissue-template
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