Michel Vocks
Senior Software Engineer at GitHub
Ruhr Region Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMichel Vocks is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native platforms and secure backend systems, currently at GitHub after roles at CloudQuery and HashiCorp. He combines deep cloud and infrastructure expertise—evident from significant open-source contributions to CloudQuery’s AWS WAF integration and to HashiCorp Vault’s security fixes—with practical platform migration experience from enterprise projects. Comfortable across the stack, he has shipped front-end features for pipeline tooling as well as low-level security and TLS improvements in critical projects. Based in the Ruhr Region, he brings a compiler-enthusiast mindset (literally grew up with emerge and compiling) that surfaces in careful, performance-minded engineering and attention to secure defaults.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology, Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology at Fontys Hogeschool VenloMinor, IT, Minor, IT at 한양대학교
English, German
Github Skills (40)
javascript10
tls1210
waf10
apidoc10
css10
secret-management10
cloud-infrastructure10
tls1310
security10
aws-sdk10
mtls10
secrets-manager10
go10
api10
front-end-development10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
gaia-pipeline/gaia
Dec 2017 - Feb 2022
Build powerful pipelines in any programming language.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 188 commits, 119 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Michel contributed significantly to the front-end development of the Gaia pipeline platform, implementing the initial layout for various UI components such as the sidebar, navbar, and footer. They also made small improvements to the UI design and implemented a sign-in modal, including the handling of authentication. Additionally, the user appears to have worked on the create pipeline view by building the UI components such as add credentials form, and displaying the state of the pipelines.
programming-languagegopipelineautomationjava
hashicorp/vault
Feb 2019 - Apr 2020
A tool for secrets management, encryption as a service, and privileged access management
Role in this project:Back-end Developer / Security Engineer
Back-end Developer / Security EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 77 commits, 141 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Michel primarily focused on enhancing the security and stability of the Vault project. Their contributions include implementing warnings for insecure cipher suite configurations, fixing issues related to token role updates, and addressing replication issues with database root credential rotations. They also addressed vulnerabilities and security-related bugs within the system, ensuring the secure operation of the secrets management tool. Furthermore, they worked on adding TLS options to various parts of the project.
access-managementencryptionvaultgosecrets
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