Rob Cresswell
Founding Engineer at Tessl
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRob Cresswell is a founding engineer and seasoned backend-focused software professional with 11 years’ experience building secure, production-grade systems across startups and large enterprises. He has driven architecture and security improvements at Snyk (including notable contributions to the widely used Snyk CLI for Dockerfile vulnerability reporting) and served as Senior Software Engineer at Anchore before co-founding Tessl. An early OpenStack Horizon core contributor and two-cycle project lead, Rob blends open-source leadership with hands-on TypeScript/Node.js and Vue.js development. Known for pragmatic documentation and an almost “invisible” reliability in teams, he excels at turning complex security and automation problems into maintainable, developer-friendly solutions. Based in London, he combines deep backend security work with a practical product mindset informed by years of cross-company engineering.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science with a Year In Industry Computing, BSc Computer Science with a Year In Industry Computing at University of Kent
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Github Skills (11)
snyk10
vulnerabilities10
docker10
dockers10
security10
typescript-types9
typescript9
typescripts9
nodejs8
javascript7
npm6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
snyk/cli
Oct 2018 - Jan 2022
Snyk CLI scans and monitors your projects for security vulnerabilities.
Role in this project:
Security Engineer & Back-end Developer
Security Engineer & Back-end DeveloperContributions:54 reviews, 43 commits, 82 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Rob contributed significantly to enhancing the security features of the Snyk CLI tool. Their work focused on improving Dockerfile vulnerability reporting, including differentiating vulnerabilities originating from base images versus the user's Dockerfile. They also updated runtime support, removed a wizard hint, and converted code to TypeScript. Furthermore, the user addressed a bug related to undefined base images and performed code refactoring for better readability and maintainability.
monitorssarifmonitorsecurity-toolsvulnerabilities
robcresswell/dems-script
Jul 2019 - May 2022
npx dems robcresswell/dems-script
Contributions:2 PRs, 16 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 11 months
scaffoldscriptnpxdemstypescript
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