Robby Cochran
Engineering Manager at Red Hat
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobby Cochran is an engineering manager with 11 years of experience leading development of cloud-native security for Kubernetes, currently heading eBPF efforts on Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security in San Francisco. He progressed through multiple senior engineering roles at StackRox (now part of Red Hat), combining deep backend development and security engineering to harden container environments and add compliance checks. Robby pairs hands-on contributions—such as protocol and alert-service work on the widely used StackRox Kubernetes Security Platform—with people leadership and architectural direction. His background includes published research from a Microsoft internship leveraging genetic programming and automata, reflecting a knack for marrying rigorous research techniques with practical systems engineering. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and a BS in Computer Science, bringing both academic depth and production-scale experience to cloud security challenges.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Clemson UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Github Skills (9)
kubernetes10
go10
protobuffer10
protobuf10
kubernetes-pods10
security10
api-design9
container9
testing8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
stackrox/stackrox
Aug 2018 - Nov 2022
The StackRox Kubernetes Security Platform performs a risk analysis of the container environment, delivers visibility and runtime alerts, and provides recommendations to proactively improve security by hardening the environment.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:83 reviews, 182 commits, 44 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Robby made several contributions focused on enhancing the StackRox Kubernetes Security Platform. Their work involved fixing code, modifying proto definitions for process signals, and updating the alert service. Furthermore, the user updated and implemented security features such as adding lifecycle stages to alert policies, renaming search fields, and adding a check for PCI 1.1.2 and 1.3.2, and 1.1.4. These changes indicate a focus on improving both functionality and security compliance within the platform.
kubernetes-securitysecuritycontainersk8skubernetes
robbycochran/release
May 2022 - May 2025
Release tooling for OpenShift
Contributions:20 pushes, 10 branches in 3 years
kubernetesopenshifttooling
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