Josh Buker
Research Analyst at Technology Alliance Group for Northwest Washington
Bellingham, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarJosh Buker is a multidisciplinary software engineer and research analyst with 11 years of experience applying robotics, machine learning, information security, and electrical/mechanical engineering principles to practical problems. Based in Bellingham, he combines terse, direct communication with a collaborative mindset developed through small-group communications coursework and community organizing. At the Cloud Security Alliance he progressed from web developer to research analyst, contributing to security-focused research and developer-facing projects. He is an active open-source back-end contributor, notably improving authentication in the Sorcery project by adding OAuth2 providers and fixing vulnerabilities. Comfortable soldering PCBs as an electronic assembler and writing production code, he bridges hardware and software domains to deliver pragmatic, security-conscious solutions.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (11)
ruby-rails10
user-authentication10
authentication10
rails10
linkedin10
oauth10
ruby10
auth9
microsoft-graph9
mongoid8
mongodb8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Sorcery/sorcery
Sep 2016 - Oct 2022
Magical Authentication
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 66 reviews, 72 commits in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Josh primarily contributed to the `sorcery/sorcery` project by implementing new features, fixing bugs, and updating the project's authentication framework. Their work includes adding support for new authentication providers like Microsoft Graph and Auth0, as well as updating existing providers such as LinkedIn to use OAuth 2. The user also fixed a brute force vulnerability and addressed issues with the Mongoid adapter.
railsauthenticationsorceryruby
joshbuker/joshbuker.github.io
Jul 2022 - Mar 2025
Mr. Green is a multilingual theme generated with Jekyll and fully compatible with GitHub Pages.
Contributions:76 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 9 months
bootswatchjekylljekyll-thememultilingual
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