Richard Gomez
Director Cyber Security And IT Risk Management at RBC
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Gomez is a security-focused technology leader with a decade of experience at RBC, rising from software developer roles to Director of Cyber Security and IT Risk Management. He blends hands-on software engineering and DevOps expertise with red-team adversary emulation and enterprise vulnerability program leadership, notably spearheading Log4Shell remediation and building secret-detection tooling. An active contributor to open-source security tooling (including improvements to the widely used trufflehog repo), he emphasizes code quality, maintainability, and practical integrations with GitHub/GitLab. Richard has a track record of turning developer experience investments—Nexus repositories, inner-source communities, and developer productivity tools—into measurable operational improvements. He mentors early-career engineers and has a background in systems analysis from Sheridan College, pairing strong technical depth with stakeholder-facing crisis response.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Systems Analysis, Computer Systems Analysis at Sheridan College
Github Skills (6)
git10
go10
github-api10
computer-engineering9
version-control9
cicd8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
trufflesecurity/trufflehog
Apr 2023 - Dec 2025
Find, verify, and analyze leaked credentials
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:376 reviews, 169 PRs, 796 comments in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Richard primarily contributed to back-end development, modifying code related to generating links within the Git source code. They also made a feature addition to include line numbers in GitHub and GitLab links. The contributions extended to improving the Git parsing logic, and removing unused code, indicating a focus on code quality and maintainability. Moreover, the user made improvements to enhance the integration with GitHub by including scan issue and PR titles, alongside updating the GitHub API usage.
golangdynamic-analysisplacesecurity-toolssecurity
rgmz/vertx-web
May 2021 - Aug 2023
HTTP web applications for Vert.x
Contributions:1 PR, 14 pushes, 15 branches in 2 years 2 months
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