Skyler Rojas
Security Software Engineer at Yelp
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolSkyler Rojas is a Security Software Engineer with eight years of experience building secure, production-grade systems across tech giants and academia, currently focused at Yelp in Berkeley. They combine deep security expertise from roles at Facebook and UC Berkeley with hands-on engineering—contributing to open-source PaaSTA work that improved AWS/Spark credential handling and DevOps reliability. Skyler excels at turning threat data and operational constraints into practical tooling and guarded workflows, having built tools to identify abuse actors and to streamline credential management. Known for bridging security and backend/devops concerns, they bring both investigative rigor and pragmatic coding to hard operational problems.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science, Senior, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science, Senior at University of California, BerkeleyGraduate, Graduate at Benjamin Franklin High School
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Github Skills (11)
spark10
boto10
aws10
paas10
python10
dockers9
devops9
docker9
infrastructure8
kubernetes8
kubernetes-pods8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Yelp/paasta
Aug 2020 - Feb 2021
An open, distributed platform as a service
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 16 commits, 6 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Skyler primarily focused on enhancing the PaaSTA platform's integration with AWS, particularly related to Spark job execution. They implemented features for handling AWS credentials, including session tokens, within the Spark environment, improving security and access control. Furthermore, the user addressed testing and debugging of these features, modifying configuration and testing files. The user also made improvements to the system for fetching and using AWS credentials, ensuring the correct profile is used.
mesosdockerplatform-as-a-servicedistributed-systemsmicroservices
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