Kevin O'gorman
Senior Software Engineer at Freedom of the Press Foundation
Canada
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Top SchoolKevin O'gorman is a Senior Software Engineer based in Canada with 13 years of professional experience building reliable, production-grade systems and supporting journalism-focused platforms. Currently at the Freedom of the Press Foundation, he blends back-end engineering and DevOps to improve secure, privacy-preserving tooling—contributing to the well-known SecureDrop project’s documentation, install workflows, and staging/testing processes. His background spans cloud operations, release and integration management at major Canadian news organizations, and running his own consultancy, giving him both operational rigor and entrepreneurial adaptability. Known for translating complex deployment and security requirements into clear, testable procedures, he helps teams ship reproducible, auditable systems. He studied at Trinity College Dublin and brings a pragmatic, documentation-first approach that strengthens long-lived open-source and newsroom infrastructure.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Bachelor of Science (BSc) at Trinity College, Dublin
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Github Skills (9)
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ansible9
linux9
ansible-galaxy9
bash8
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devops8
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
freedomofpress/securedrop
Jul 2018 - Jan 2023
GitHub repository for the SecureDrop whistleblower platform. Do not submit tips here!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:19 releases, 587 reviews, 1068 commits in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to improving the documentation and tooling for the SecureDrop project. They made changes to install instructions, configuration tests, and release management documentation, including updates for Tails 5 compatibility. Additionally, the user added instructions for building and testing in staging environments and streamlined the setup and testing procedures.
usabilitypythonsubmitflask-applicationsecuredrop
zenmonkeykstop/field-guide-security-training-newsroom
Oct 2017 - Jul 2018
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Contributions:60 pushes, 28 branches in 9 months
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