Michael R
Staff Software Engineer at Tanium
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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SeniorMichael R is a Staff Software Engineer in Chicago with 16 years of experience building highly reliable security and systems software, currently focused on Go and JavaScript. He brings deep low-level expertise from a career spanning threat hunting, vulnerability research, EDR development, and network protocol reverse engineering, which informs pragmatic, secure engineering decisions. At Tanium he has progressed from senior engineer to staff and previously led EDR development and technical account teams, bridging product delivery and customer-facing security needs. An active open-source contributor, he has improved tooling like the Bazel remote cache and strengthened the Ettercap MITM toolkit, demonstrating both backend and DevOps chops. Colleagues rely on his knack for debugging and reverse engineering—an appetite that started with taking apart a radio at age five—and his track record of turning forensic insight into performant, production-ready systems.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (29)
caching10
docker10
grapesjs10
plugin-development10
c-programming10
dockers10
security10
ruby10
go10
api10
amazon-s310
performance-optimization10
bazel10
gr10
aws-s310
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Ettercap/ettercap
Feb 2013 - Nov 2013
Ettercap Project
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:58 commits, 5 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on enhancing the security of the Ettercap project by modifying the sslstrip plugin. Their contributions include implementing improvements to the redirection mechanisms, improving error handling for various plugin processes, and refactoring code related to PCRE and regex compilation. They also addressed potential memory leaks and bugs. Overall, the user's work aimed to strengthen the plugin's stability and reliability.
ettercap
buchgr/bazel-remote
Oct 2021 - Mar 2022
A remote cache for Bazel
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 13 commits, 3 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on enhancing the configuration and functionality of the Bazel remote cache. They introduced a breaking change by adding the `s3.auth_method` configuration option for the S3 proxy backend, allowing explicit control over authentication methods. Furthermore, they implemented support for reading AWS credentials from a shared credentials file. Their contributions also involved improvements to the build process and testing infrastructure.
gomabazel-rulesbazelcachingdocker-container
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