Kathryn Spiers
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKathryn Spiers is a security-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience in the San Francisco Bay Area, blending hands-on DevOps and backend work with a passion for containers, cryptography, and FLOSS. She has contributed to high-profile open-source projects like Docker CLI and Notary, improving end-to-end testing, CLI UX (fish completions), and trust/certificate handling to make container signing and verification more robust. Her background includes security roles at Google and hands-on internships at Docker, giving her practical experience across product-scale security and developer tooling. Known for improving test infrastructure and fault-tolerant key management, she brings a pragmatic, security-first mindset to developer-facing systems while advocating for open-source collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Wiston Churchill High School
English, American Sign Language
Github Skills (17)
zsh-completion10
docker10
testing10
bash-completion10
dockers10
cicd10
automation10
go10
command-line10
automations10
tab-completion10
completions10
x5099
error-handling9
cli9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
notaryproject/notary
Jul 2017 - Feb 2018
Notary is a project that allows anyone to have trust over arbitrary collections of data
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 11 PRs, 19 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Kathryn primarily contributed to the backend of the `notary` project, making changes to the core certificate generation and trust management features. They modified code to handle user input timeouts, added error typing, and fixed key import issues. Their work focused on improving the robustness and usability of the Notary project.
notarypythondockertrustarbitrary
docker/cli
Sep 2017 - May 2018
The Docker CLI
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:23 commits, 7 PRs, 24 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Kathryn primarily contributed to the end-to-end testing infrastructure within the Docker CLI repository. They added end-to-end tests using Go, focused on verifying the functionality of the `docker trust sign` command. They also refactored existing end-to-end tests, improving test fixtures and overall test structure. Furthermore, they added fish completions for the docker trust and other subcommands, enhancing the user experience with command-line completion.
dockerdocker-clicli
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