Lucas Rodriguez
Sr. Staff Software Engineer at Fleet Device Management
Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Top SchoolLucas Rodriguez is a Sr. Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building secure, high-performance backend systems across startups and enterprises from Argentina. He blends hands-on C++ and backend engineering with leadership roles—most recently driving security and platform work at Fleet and leading development of SpiderOak’s Zero Trust platform. Passionate about software security, online privacy, and applied cryptography, he has contributed notable open-source security improvements to projects like osquery and Fleet, including a denylist for distributed queries and robust logging/permission fixes. His background includes low-level systems work (payment servers, protocol analyzers) and static analysis contributions to cppcheck, reflecting deep attention to correctness and reliability. Comfortable toggling between individual contributor and team lead, he brings practical CI/CD, tooling, and cross-platform experience from large-scale C++ deployments to cloud-native product code. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic security-first engineering and durable, well-tested implementations.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Systems Engineering, BS, Computer Systems Engineering at Universidad Nacional del Sur
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (30)
debugging10
debug10
c-language10
static-analysis10
back-end-development10
mysql10
it-security10
distributed-systems10
security10
go10
sql10
database-design10
cppcheck10
cprogramming-language10
testing9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
fleetdm/fleet
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
Open-source platform for IT, security, and infrastructure teams. (Linux, macOS, Chrome, Windows, cloud, data center)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4554 reviews, 345 commits, 1246 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Lucas contributed to Fleet, an open-source platform for IT, security, and infrastructure teams, by addressing issues related to file permissions for logging and refactoring database interactions. They implemented early-fail mechanisms for process permissions when writing to log files and refactored code related to database table names. Further contributions involved introducing a new `entityName` type for MySQL entity table names.
operating-systemsriskcloud-securitytelemetryworkstations
osquery/osquery
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
SQL powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics.
Role in this project:Backend & Security Engineer
Backend & Security EngineerContributions:47 reviews, 3 commits, 20 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Lucas contributed to the implementation of a denylist mechanism for distributed queries, enhancing the security features of the osquery project. They added functionality to check, set, and remove running queries, incorporating time-based expiration. Moreover, the user's work included improving the error handling and logging, along with improvements to the table `users`, ensuring the project's robustness and maintainability.
instrumentationanalyticsoperating-systemsecuritysql
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