Lucas Charles
Principal Engineer at GitLab
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolLucas Charles is a Principal Engineer with 14 years of experience building security-focused developer tools and platform capabilities, currently driving strategy and high-complexity work for GitLab’s Sec products from Portland, Oregon. He combines deep backend and static analysis expertise—SAST, SCA, vulnerability management, and WAF/IDS integrations—with a penchant for measuring efficacy and embedding security into developer workflows. A hands-on architect and founding engineer for product stages like Defend, he also hires and mentors teams, runs incident response, and shapes cross-functional roadmaps. Lucas is an active open-source contributor (notably improving stripe-ruby-mock test coverage and behavior), reflecting his philosophy of building tools to build more tools and improving reliability through automation and testing.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Portland Code SchoolBachelor of Arts - BA Applied Linguistics, Bachelor of Arts - BA Applied Linguistics at Portland State University
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Github Skills (13)
ruby10
rspec10
test-automation10
stripe-api10
apidoc9
api9
sidekiq6
json6
ftp6
enviroment6
rets6
soap6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
stripe-ruby-mock/stripe-ruby-mock
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
A mocking library for testing stripe ruby
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 9 comments in 12 days
Contributions summary:Lucas primarily contributed to the StripeMock library by adding features and improving test coverage. They introduced a `forgiven` flag in the mock invoice data and modified charge-related parameters. The user also implemented and expanded test cases, specifically adding requirements for amount and currency in `Stripe::Charge.create`. This demonstrates the user's involvement in both feature implementation and ensuring the library's functionality.
stripetestingrubymockingmocking-library
theoretick/awesome-open-beer
Dec 2018 - Jan 2023
A curated list of breweries that open source their beer recipes
Contributions:12 commits, 5 PRs, 6 pushes in 4 years 1 month
beersrecipesrecipehomebrewingbreweries
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