Michael Herzog
Assistant Vice President Information Technology
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Herzog is an accomplished IT leader with over two decades of hands-on experience in web development, software management, and cybersecurity, currently serving as Assistant Vice President of Information Technology at Brooklyn Public Library. He has led technical teams across government, finance, and nonprofit sectors—from NASA contracts at SAIC to intranet engineering at Bell Atlantic—bringing a pragmatic blend of development, operations, and security discipline. A web developer since the early days of the WWW, he pairs institutional knowledge with modern security credentials (M.S. in CyberSecurity) to shepherd large-scale digital services. He also contributes to open-source projects as a technical writer, improving documentation for notable tools like ScanCode Toolkit to help organizations track licenses and dependencies. Colleagues rely on him for steady technical stewardship and for turning complex compliance and usability needs into maintainable systems.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer and Information Science, BS, Computer and Information Science at University of Maryland University CollegeBS, Education, BS, Education at West Virginia University
Github Skills (7)
read-me10
documentation10
rights4
cop4
licensing4
copying4
open-source4
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
aboutcode-org/scancode-toolkit
Dec 2015 - May 2022
:mag: ScanCode detects licenses, copyrights, dependencies by "scanning code" ... to discover and inventory open source and third-party packages used in your code. Sponsored by NLnet project https://nlnet.nl/project/vulnerabilitydatabase, the Google Summer of Code, Azure credits, nexB and others generous sponsors!
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:1 review, 14 commits, 14 pushes in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the project by editing and updating documentation files, including README, ROADMAP, and CHANGELOG files. These revisions encompassed text edits for clarity, grammar, and syntax, as well as corrections to type. Additionally, the user added information about a desktop application, removed a screenshot of a deprecated HTML app, and updated the changelog for the latest release. These changes suggest a focus on improving the project's documentation and user experience.
licensingdependenciesdependency-graphcode-scanningprovenance
aboutcode-org/aboutcode
May 2017 - Mar 2022
AboutCode project: tools and data to uncover things about code: the provenance, origin, license, and more (packages, security, quality, etc.) of FOSS code
Contributions:1 review, 14 commits, 1 PR in 4 years 10 months
checklistsarifsecurityprovenancefoss
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