Luke O'malley
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLuke O’Malley is a founder and security-focused engineer with 13 years of experience building tools that make software harder to exploit, best known for co-founding Semgrep. He brings a rare blend of mission-driven systems work—from supporting U.S. counterterrorism programs at Palantir to deep-space propulsion research at the Air Force Research Laboratory—grounded in an EECS degree from MIT. Based in San Francisco, he pairs hands-on product and engineering leadership with early-stage investing in companies like Partiful and Chalk AI. Outside tech he’s a California-licensed bartender and serves as Vice Commodore of the volunteer-run South Beach Yacht Club, reflecting his knack for community leadership and unconventional side pursuits.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor's of Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (90)
python10
semgrep10
security10
ruby10
chat10
linter10
program-analysis10
javascript10
static-analysis10
security-scanner10
typescript10
java10
go10
sast10
static-code-analysis10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
semgrep/docs
Mar 2019 - Aug 2019
Read the Docs documentation for r2c
Contributions:33 PRs, 73 pushes, 31 branches in 4 months
r2cread-the-docsmemgraph
dlukeomalley/hue-sunrise
Apr 2016 - Jun 2022
Lightweight set of scripts to turn Phillips Hue bulbs on at sunrise. Runs via a cron job on a home server (i.e. Raspberry Pi).
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 2 months
raspberry-piphillips-huesunriseraspberryhue
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