Joshua Brindle
Principal Security Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Columbia, Maryland, United States
Summary
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RockstarJoshua Brindle is a Principal Security Engineer with 23 years of experience focused on SELinux, SE for Android, secure mobility, and cross-domain solutions, currently driving security architecture at AWS. He has led security strategy and product hardening as Principal Security Architect at Crunchy Data and as Founder/CTO of Quark Security, combining hands-on engineering with leadership in both startups and enterprise settings. A long-time contributor to the upstream SELinux userland project, he has added practical features like glob and transaction support and improved context management and error handling used broadly by Linux distributions. Joshua excels at system architecture and threat modeling, turning complex security requirements into auditable, scalable policies and mechanisms. Based in Columbia, Maryland, he brings a pragmatic blend of research-grade depth and operational experience across kernel-level security and applied product defenses. Outside work he channels the same curiosity into brewing, 3D printing, microcontrollers, and wireless CTFs, reflecting a maker’s approach to security problems.
23 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (8)
gpo10
selinux10
security-hardening10
enforcement10
policies10
c-programming9
automations8
automation8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
SELinuxProject/selinux
Aug 2008 - Sep 2019
This is the upstream repository for the Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) userland libraries and tools. The software provided by this project complements the SELinux features integrated into the Linux kernel and is used by Linux distributions. All bugs and patches should be submitted to selinux@vger.kernel.org
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:126 commits, 2 pushes in 11 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Joshua contributed significantly to the Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) userland libraries and tools, focusing on enhancing and maintaining the system's security features. Their work included adding new definitions and functionalities, such as glob support and support for transactions, modifying existing components, and fixing errors in the existing codebase. The user addressed various issues, including adding features for more efficient security context management, and correcting error messages.
kerneldistributionsvgerintegratedlinux-distribution
OwlCyberDefense/setools3
Oct 2004 - Apr 2005
Contributions:810 commits in 6 months
policysecurityanalysis-toolsselinuxpolicy-analysis
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