Samuel Keeley is a Staff Security Developer with 12 years of experience securing user endpoints and supporting services across high-scale consumer tech companies including Airbnb, DoorDash, Dropbox, and now Wealthsimple. He blends hands-on systems and SRE experience with security engineering, shipping pragmatic fixes from macOS service providers to production security controls. A frequent contributor to open-source projects like Munki and Puppet, he has practical expertise in macOS management and automation that informs robust endpoint protections. Based in Chicago and often traveling for work, he pairs deep operational knowledge with a knack for simplifying platform differences across OS versions to make security measurable and maintainable.
Contributions:44 commits, 20 PRs, 51 pushes in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Samuel primarily focused on improving and maintaining the Munki software management system for macOS. They made several modifications to scripts and build processes, including updating download links and fixing file paths. These changes indicate an effort to ensure the stability and proper functionality of the software, especially related to the installation and uninstallation procedures, and updating the internal build configuration. They also updated text and URLs, contributing to general code quality.
Contributions:7 commits, 11 PRs, 15 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Samuel primarily contributed to the `launchd` service provider within the Puppet automation framework. Their work involved modifying the `launchd.rb` and `launchd_spec.rb` files to address issues related to service management on macOS, specifically versions 10.6 and 10.10. These changes included adding the `-w` flag when starting launchd jobs and updating logic to handle OS-specific differences in plist overrides and the Darwin version. The user also refactored code to read `launchd` plists using the `CFPropertyList` gem, optimizing performance.
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Samuel Keeley - Staff Security Developer at Wealthsimple