Rob Fletcher
Co-Founder, COO, Board Member at Discernible Inc
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolRob Fletcher is a seasoned security-focused technology leader and operator with 12 years of experience building and scaling secure developer experiences. As Co-Founder and COO of DevZero in Seattle, he leads Product and Engineering to deliver one-click, ephemeral, enterprise-ready developer environments that bridge security and cloud interoperability. He previously headed Product Security at Uber and managed Product Security at Facebook, where he scaled teams and programs spanning static/dynamic analysis, bug bounty, threat modeling, and developer enablement. Rob began his career in security engineering at Cisco and Mozilla and has practical open-source contributions to notable tooling like Bandit, adding plugins for template and XML attack detection and JSON output to improve security automation. A Stanford GSB alum in product leadership with deep hands-on engineering roots, he combines operator discipline with a knack for turning security constraints into developer-first solutions.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Innovative Product Leadership: The Emerging Chief Product Officer Product, Innovative Product Leadership: The Emerging Chief Product Officer Product at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessMaster of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at The University of Tennessee at ChattanoogaBachelor of Science Computer Science w/ Minor in Mathematics, Bachelor of Science Computer Science w/ Minor in Mathematics at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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Github Skills (23)
static-analysis10
jquery10
python10
jinja210
css10
placeholder10
security10
security-testing10
google-chrome10
vulnerability-detection10
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xml10
security-scan10
mako9
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
openstack-archive/bandit
Feb 2015 - Apr 2015
Python AST-based static analyzer from OpenStack Security Group
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:8 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Rob's commits primarily focused on enhancing the security aspects of the `bandit` repository, a Python static analyzer. They introduced several new plugins designed to detect and warn against potential vulnerabilities related to XSS, XML attacks, and insecure coding practices, specifically with Mako and Jinja2 templates. Additionally, they refactored existing code to improve maintainability and added the capability to output results in JSON format, further improving the tools' utility.
static-analyzerpython-astpythonsecuritysecurity-group
uber-archive/Bug-Bounty-Page
Aug 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:7 commits, 5 PRs, 6 pushes in 4 months
commitstransparentbugbountysecurityresearchers
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