Joseph Portner
PCB Designer Drafter At Amphenol Maryland Wilcoxon Sensing Technologies
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoseph Portner is a seasoned PCB designer and drafter with 11+ years designing mission-critical electronics across Amphenol/Wilcoxon, Meggitt, MEI Technologies, and ACDI, blending electrical and mechanical engineering know-how. Based in the Washington DC–Baltimore area, he pairs hands-on CAD and PCB layout experience with systems engineering perspectives gained through long-tenured roles in vibration and sensing technology. An active contributor to security-focused software projects on GitHub, he has applied backend and AppSec skills to high-profile tooling like Elastic's Kibana, improving audit logging and session security. That rare mix of hardware design depth and practical application security awareness makes him adept at bridging physical product constraints with data-integrity and security concerns.
11 years of coding experience
Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at AccuTech Business InstituteMechanical Engineering Technology, Mechanical Engineering Technology, Mechanical Engineering Technology, Mechanical Engineering Technology at Hagerstown Community College
Github Skills (16)
backend10
back-end-development10
security10
typescript-types9
jestjs9
jes9
amazon-elasticsearch9
jtest9
elasticsearch-api9
aws-elasticsearch9
elasticsearchquery9
typescript9
typescripts9
elasticsearch9
nodejs8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/kibana
Nov 2019 - Jun 2022
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Security Engineer
Backend Developer & Security EngineerContributions:1264 reviews, 392 commits, 795 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Joseph primarily contributed to the security-related aspects of the Kibana backend. They made significant changes to the security usage data collection and reporting mechanisms. The work involved modifying test files, adding functionality related to audit logging, and improving the handling of session-related configurations. The user also contributed to the implementation of SavedObjectsClient functionality, adding features like bulk resolve and resolving conflicts to ensure the integrity and security of the system.
elasticdashboardskibanaobservabilitywindow
elastic/snyk-github-issue-creator
Dec 2020 - Aug 2022
Contributions:10 reviews, 9 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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