Joss Sparkes
Greater Leeds Area United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarJoss Sparkes is a security-focused software engineer with 8 years' experience specializing in application security and software testing, based in the Greater Leeds Area. He blends hands-on DevOps and security engineering, contributing to open-source projects like OWASP's wrongsecrets to demonstrate secure secret handling and improve CI/CD and container tooling. Joss has a practical knack for hardening test suites and infrastructure—recent work includes refining tests, adapting code for style compliance, and adding realistic challenges like bash history exercises. Colleagues know him for spotting subtle attack surfaces and turning security lessons into reproducible developer tooling. He combines a tester’s attention to detail with an engineer’s drive to automate repeatable, auditable security practices.
8 years of coding experience
Github Skills (15)
security10
secret-management10
secrets-manager10
devsecops10
bash10
docker10
dockers10
secrets10
testing10
java9
githubaction-workflow9
github-ci9
owasp9
javas9
maven8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
OWASP/wrongsecrets
May 2022 - Jul 2022
Vulnerable app with examples showing how to not use secrets
Role in this project:
Security Engineer & DevOps Engineer
Security Engineer & DevOps EngineerContributions:39 reviews, 68 commits, 9 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Joss's primary focus was on enhancing the security of the `wrongsecrets` application and improving the related infrastructure. They made several code changes to adapt the application to allow answers with or without single quotes, to conform to Maven checkstyle, and to refine tests. The user added a bash history challenge, along with its initial code, to the repository and included related tests. They also worked on docker-related scripts and made modifications to the CI/CD process.
gcpctfvaultsecrets-managementaws
RemakingEden/jsparkes.com
May 2019 - Oct 2023
The repo that powers my personal blog http://jsparkes.com
Contributions:16 PRs, 86 pushes, 25 branches in 4 years 5 months
powersmy-personal-blog
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