Rok Biderman
Chief Architect Lead Engineer at Security First.
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorRok Biderman is a results-driven Chief Architect and Lead Engineer with 11 years building API-first, scalable systems across startups in San Francisco. He specializes in Golang backends, distributed services and cloud data pipelines (AWS Redshift), and has repeatedly owned architecture, security and integrations from seed-stage to high-growth products. Rok led the tech strategy and scaled HER Social App’s user base from hundreds to mid six figures while designing a Go API intended for millions of users, and now drives architecture and security at Iconic Finance. Comfortable across languages and stacks (Android/Java, Node.js, Elixir, PHP, MongoDB, MySQL, RethinkDB), he balances pragmatic REST-minded API design with performance and operational simplicity. He also contributes substantial open-source work for humanitarian-focused Security First, where he architected Android search and alternative transports, showing a commitment to mission-driven engineering beyond commercial projects.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (70)
security10
multiple-languages10
encryption10
crypto10
infosec10
umbrella10
android10
protest10
ios10
hacking10
android-open-source10
privacy10
journalism10
rethinkdb-go9
gorethink9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
securityfirst/umbrella-api
Oct 2014 - May 2018
Api that runs Umbrella
Contributions:90 commits, 3 PRs, 20 pushes in 3 years 7 months
apiexpressrunsumbrellanodejs
securityfirst/Umbrella_android
Oct 2014 - Mar 2022
Open source Android, iOS and Web app for learning about and managing digital and physical security. From how to send a secure message to dealing with a kidnap. Umbrella has best practice guides in over 40 topics in multiple languages. Used daily by people working in high risk countries - journalists, activists, diplomats, business travelers etc.
Contributions:625 commits, 134 PRs, 329 pushes in 7 years 6 months
human-rights-defendersbest-practiceriskios-androidactivists
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