Joseph Weate is a security-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience spanning APT hunts, cloud security, DevOps and threat detection across enterprise and government contexts. Currently a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI and formerly a Senior Security Engineer at Airbnb and Yelp, he combines hands-on backend and deployment work—evidenced by contributions to projects like Urbit and Yelp’s PaaSTA—with operational security leadership from his time managing computer network defense in the US Army. He teaches and mentors as Lead Instructor at CodeYourFuture, translating complex security topics into practical skills for others. Comfortable moving between low-level system changes (terminal handling, URI parsing) and high-level incident response, Joseph brings a pragmatic, reliability-first approach to securing distributed systems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering at University of Virginia
Contributions:87 commits, 42 PRs, 62 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Joseph primarily contributed to the PaaSTA project by modifying scripts and configurations related to deployment and infrastructure. Their changes included adding a timeout for Git operations and handling connection errors. The user also focused on modifying the local-run command and its associated tests, including the addition of a port option, and made adjustments to logging and error handling within the code base. These modifications indicate a focus on improving the reliability and functionality of the deployment and local execution tools.
Contributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 2 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Joseph primarily contributed to the backend of the Urbit operating function, addressing system-level functionalities. Their work involved modifying code related to terminal input handling, specifically disabling terminal echo for passcode entry. Additionally, the user refactored URI parsing and updated dependencies for build processes, demonstrating DevOps skills. The user also updated documentation related to swap space.
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Joseph Weate - Member Of Technical Staff at CodeYourFuture