Michael Maslanka
Principal Application Security Engineer
Flower Mound, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Maslanka is a Principal Application Security Engineer with 15+ years of hands-on experience securing large-scale cloud and game publishing environments, currently leading Continuous Testing at Xbox Game Studios Publishing. He specializes in building automated SAST, Secrets, IaC, pipeline, and SBOM tooling, centralizing results into ASPM platforms and reducing triage burden with custom post-processing and auto-triage pipelines. His background spans DevSecOps, Vault and Terraform migrations, Qualys integration, and Kubernetes deployments using ArgoCD, with a track record of driving cross-team security adoption at Activision Blizzard, Progress, Cisco, and Yum! Brands. An active contributor to the chef/omnibus build system, he brings pragmatic build and release automation expertise that informs his security tooling decisions. Based in Flower Mound, Texas, he combines developer empathy with measurable program-level improvements to enable secure, scalable game delivery for millions of players.
5 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Texas A&M University
Github Skills (8)
build-system10
go10
rpm9
automation9
automations9
cicd8
linux7
ruby5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
chef/omnibus
Jul 2021 - Aug 2021
Easily create full-stack installers for your project across a variety of platforms.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:11 commits, 4 PRs, 15 pushes in 14 days
Contributions summary:Michael made significant contributions to the `chef/omnibus` repository, primarily focused on build system enhancements and automation. Their work included adding functionality for RPM signing, incorporating a Go DSL for build processes, and modifying build configurations for cross-platform compatibility. They also made adjustments to the build process to address Red Hat and CentOS environments.
full-stack
chef/omnibus-harmony
Jul 2021 - Sep 2022
A simple omnibus repository for testing purposes
Contributions:16 commits, 2 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 2 months
testing
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