Mikey Strauss
Senior Software Engineer Team Lead at Scribe Security
Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolMikey Strauss is a Senior Software Engineer and team lead with a decade of experience turning deep security research into production-ready systems, currently shaping supply-chain security at Scribe Security as its first employee. He specializes in SBOMs, attestation, SLSA, and Sigstore-era signing and verification, with hands-on expertise in Go, Kubernetes, OPA Rego, and low-level container/git/OCI internals. Comfortable from firmware and SoC work to cloud-native DevOps, he repeatedly joins startups at the bootstrap stage and drives projects from problem definition through design, research, and delivery. An active contributor to the Syft SBOM project, he focuses on improving package analysis and metadata accuracy—reflecting a practical obsession with trustworthy software provenance. Off-hours he’s a maker who builds clever, sometimes delightfully useless gadgets, revealing a creative curiosity that informs his technical problem-solving.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
computer science, Computer Science, 87, computer science, Computer Science, 87 at The Open University of Israel
English, Hebrew
Github Skills (10)
golang10
sbom10
container10
go10
package-management10
dockers9
docker9
api-design8
testing7
static-analysis7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
anchore/syft
Sep 2021 - May 2022
CLI tool and library for generating a Software Bill of Materials from container images and filesystems
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 4 commits, 10 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Mikey primarily contributed to the Syft project by implementing features, fixing bugs, and improving package analysis capabilities. Their work involved modifying code related to file system scanning, SBOM generation, and package URL handling. They also addressed issues concerning license parsing and package metadata, focusing on improving the accuracy and reliability of the software bill of materials generation process.
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scribe-security/valint-pipe
Dec 2022 - Jan 2025
Contributions:3 reviews, 30 PRs, 146 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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