Rachel Cipkins
Incident Response at Apple
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRachel Cipkins is an incident response professional and senior Computer Science student with eight years of hands-on security engineering experience, currently working in Incident Response at Apple after completing Apple’s Information Security Development Program. She blends deep practical exposure from internships at Trail of Bits, TD Ameritrade, and Workiva with backend development and test automation contributions to high-profile open-source tooling like osquery (notably enhancing its chrome_extensions table and startup_items integration). Comfortable across defensive operations, secure engineering, and instrumentation, she focuses on making systems observable and testable to reduce time-to-detection and triage. Based in San Francisco and graduating from Stevens Institute of Technology, she brings a pragmatic, research-informed approach and a track record of shipping reliable, auditable security features.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Mainland Regional High SchoolBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Stevens Institute of Technology
Github Skills (15)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
sql10
testing10
systemd9
administration8
network-intrusion-detection8
administrator8
system8
system-administration8
intrusion-detection8
admin8
sys8
security7
monitoring7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
osquery/osquery
Dec 2019 - Dec 2020
SQL powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:7 commits, 8 PRs, 7 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Rachel primarily contributed to the `chrome_extensions` table, enhancing its functionality to support Brave/Chromium browsers. They added code to extract and display information about Chrome extensions, including permissions, optional permissions, and content script details. Furthermore, the user implemented and added tests to ensure the reliability and correctness of the `chrome_extensions` table. Their work also involved integrating systemd unit information into the `startup_items` table.
instrumentationanalyticsoperating-systemsecuritysql
rcipkins/warehouse
Sep 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
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