Richard Petrie
Senior Product Manager at Corelight
Overland Park, Kansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Petrie is a Senior Product Manager with 12 years of hands-on cybersecurity and incident response experience, now applying that expertise to product strategy at Corelight. He progressed from hands-on red team and security engineering roles at the Federal Reserve Banks to senior advisory and product leadership, blending technical rigor with stakeholder-facing program delivery. A practical engineer at heart, he has contributed backend fixes to the high-profile Rust package registry crates.io, improving login and search correctness—evidence of his attention to API stability and data integrity. Richard pairs academic depth (MBA and ongoing Master of Public Management at Johns Hopkins) with frontline IT and SOC experience, making him comfortable translating technical risk into product requirements. Based in Overland Park, Kansas, he advocates for training and healthy culture as force multipliers for security teams. Colleagues know him as an incident-response enthusiast who brings both code-level curiosity and strategic product judgment to complex security problems.
12 years of coding experience
Associate of Applied Science, Computer Support Specialist - Networking, 3.8, Associate of Applied Science, Computer Support Specialist - Networking, 3.8 at Hutchinson Community CollegeJohns Hopkins UniversityMaster's of Business Administration, 3.65, Master's of Business Administration, 3.65 at Kansas State University
English
Github Skills (8)
rust10
postgresql10
apidoc9
database-design9
api9
testing8
algorithm7
algorithms7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
rust-lang/crates.io
Sep 2017 - Oct 2017
The Rust package registry
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 5 PRs, 18 comments in 10 days
Contributions summary:Richard primarily contributed to the backend logic and database interactions within the crates.io project. Their work focused on implementing case-insensitive user login functionality and ensuring unique key constraints for user data. They also made improvements to the crate search feature, including addressing case-sensitivity. These changes involved modifying database schemas, updating API endpoints, and refactoring test code, indicating a focus on code correctness and API stability.
rustpackage-registrycargo
Deedasmi/PythonTestBench
Jun 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:40 PRs, 97 pushes, 8 branches in 1 month
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