Samuel Bowman
Senior Staff DevOps Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
Bloomington, Indiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamuel Bowman is a Senior Staff DevOps Engineer and Site Reliability specialist with a decade of hands-on experience building automated, observable, and secure production systems at Palo Alto Networks. He blends a systems-administration pedigree with software engineering and incident response skills, focusing on automation, observability, security, and privacy. Samuel progressed from intern roles to senior staff, demonstrating rapid operational impact and leadership in large security-focused environments. He contributes to open-source low-level projects — notably adding modern TLS cipher suites and DHE_RSA key exchange support to the SerenityOS LibTLS — showing a practical interest in cryptography and secure systems. Based in Bloomington, Indiana, he holds both BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from Indiana University Bloomington. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic generalist who prefers building resilient, auditable infrastructure over noise, and who only logs into LinkedIn sporadically.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Indiana University Bloomington
Github Skills (9)
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operating-system10
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
SerenityOS/serenity
Aug 2021 - Oct 2022
The Serenity Operating System 🐞
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 reviews, 28 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Samuel primarily worked on implementing TLS support within the SerenityOS, specifically focusing on the LibTLS library. Their contributions include adding new cipher suites such as DHE_RSA AES GCM, implementing the DHE_RSA key exchange algorithm, and adding related methods and structures. The changes involve modifying core TLS files to support more secure and modern encryption methods.
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SamuelBowman/serenity
Aug 2021 - Apr 2023
The Serenity Operating System 🐞
Contributions:20 pushes, 20 branches in 1 year 8 months
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