Rony Xavier
Senior Security Engineer at QuickNode (We’re Hiring!)
Spotswood, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRony Xavier is a Senior Security Engineer with nine years of experience applying DevOps and security practices to mission-critical AWS deployments, currently driving security at QuickNode. He combines hands-on automation, CI/CD, and configuration management expertise with a master's in Cyber Security from NYU Tandon to harden cloud-native systems. Previously at MITRE he advanced DevOps-focused security engineering and earlier military service informs his disciplined, risk-aware approach. An active contributor to open-source testing tools—having improved matcher coverage in the widely used InSpec auditing framework—he brings practical test automation skills that improve observability and compliance. Based in Spotswood, NJ, Rony blends applied research, engineering rigor, and operational experience to deliver secure, auditable infrastructure at scale.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies, Associate's degree, Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies at Nassau Community CollegeBachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering
Github Skills (9)
audit10
test-framework10
inspec10
auditing10
inspector10
testing10
tdd9
ruby8
devsecops7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
inspec/inspec
Aug 2017 - Feb 2018
InSpec: Auditing and Testing Framework
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:11 commits, 7 PRs, 52 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Rony primarily contributed to the testing framework of the InSpec repository. Their commits focused on implementing and testing new matchers, specifically the 'be_in' matcher for checking if an item is present in a list. They wrote integration and unit tests for the new matcher and existing resources such as 'nginx' and 'aws_iam_root_user'. These contributions improved the testing coverage of the InSpec framework.
testingauditinspecsecuritycompliance
mitre/aws-foundations-cis-baseline
Dec 2017 - Jul 2020
InSpec profile to validate your VPC to the standards of the CIS Amazon Web Services Foundations Benchmark
Contributions:5 reviews, 83 commits, 14 PRs in 2 years 6 months
amazon-web-servicesvpcinspecmitre-corporationcloud
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