Maxwell Koo
Director Of Engineering at Bugcrowd
Buffalo, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMaxwell Koo is a Director of Engineering with 15 years of experience building security-focused infrastructure and product teams, currently leading engineering at Bugcrowd after several leadership roles at ForAllSecure. He blends deep technical roots—from a DoD vulnerability analyst background to hands-on security research—with product and team leadership across startups and scale-ups. Maxwell has driven analysis and infrastructure programs, shipping robust tooling and platform features that support large-scale security operations. An active contributor to the Rust web3 ecosystem, he added WebSocket and pub-sub transport support and TLS-enabled HTTP to the rust-web3 client, showing his comfort at the intersection of low-level systems and modern crypto tooling. Based in Buffalo and educated at Carnegie Mellon, he pairs disciplined engineering rigor with a pragmatic focus on deliverable, auditable security solutions.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Science Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (18)
json-rpc10
websocket10
websockets-client10
ethereum10
rust10
websocket-client10
client-websocket10
apidoc9
io9
api9
web3js9
asynchronous8
async8
tls127
libtls7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
tomusdrw/rust-web3
Mar 2018 - May 2018
Ethereum JSON-RPC multi-transport client. Rust implementation of web3 library. ENS address: rust-web3.eth
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 4 PRs, 15 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Maxwell significantly contributed to the `rust-web3` repository, focusing on enhancing the WebSocket transport. They implemented the WebSocket transport, including setting up the necessary dependencies and configurations. Furthermore, the user added support for pub-sub functionality over IPC/WS transports, expanding the library's capabilities. They also made adjustments, including adding TLS support for the HTTP transport and improving the log filtering, indicating broad involvement in improving the library's communication features.
ethereumjson-rpcrust
polyswarm/polyswarm
Nov 2017 - Mar 2018
ARCHIVE ONLY - THIS REPO HAS BEEN MOVED
Contributions:46 commits, 25 pushes, 5 branches in 4 months
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