Sam Roque-worcel
Senior Backend Engineer at GitLab
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Roque-worcel is a Senior Backend Engineer with 13+ years of professional experience and over 15 years of coding passion, now shaping backend systems at GitLab from Wellington, New Zealand. He blends deep security expertise and system design, having authored droopescan (1k+ GitHub stars) and found 80+ vulnerabilities as a bounty-driven consultant, plus contributions to mitmproxy enhancing search and test coverage. As a former Staff Engineer at Hnry and leader of multiple large-scale projects, he excels at translating leadership requirements into clear technical specifications and delivery plans. Sam coaches and mentors junior engineers regularly, growing talent through hands-on training and code review. Technically versatile, he’s comfortable from C and Python to distributed architectures using RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL and SaltStack. He’s notable for rewriting personal Advent of Code solutions in C to deepen language mastery, reflecting a rare blend of curiosity and practical security-driven engineering.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
First Certificate, Inglés, First Certificate, Inglés at London InstituteHigh School Diploma, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, High School Diploma, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at UTU mercedes
Spanish, English, chinese (hsk 2)
Github Skills (20)
debugging10
debug10
python10
vulnerability-scanners10
testing10
it-security10
security10
mitmproxy10
scanning10
proxy9
parsing9
error-handling9
semantic-versioning9
versioning9
test-automation8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
SamJoan/droopescan
Nov 2014 - Jun 2022
A plugin-based scanner that aids security researchers in identifying issues with several CMSs, mainly Drupal & Silverstripe.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:625 commits, 19 PRs, 514 pushes in 7 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily focused on addressing identified issues and improving the droopescan scanner, especially in the context of CMS, including Drupal. Their work involved fixing bugs related to version parsing and update scripts. They also implemented functionality to detect and account for the use of redirects.
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mitmproxy/mitmproxy
Dec 2013 - Mar 2014
An interactive TLS-capable intercepting HTTP proxy for penetration testers and software developers.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer/Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer/Test Automation EngineerContributions:14 commits, 2 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Sam focused on enhancing the functionality and reliability of the mitmproxy project. They added features related to search functionality, including backwards search and multi-line support within the console. Furthermore, the user addressed and fixed bugs related to the search feature, improving its stability. The user also implemented tests to validate the search functionality.
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