Spencer Balogh
Self Employed Consultant And Contractor at Self-employed
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolSpencer Balogh is a Senior Software Engineer based in Chicago with nine years of experience building secure, identity-focused APIs and authentication systems. He blends deep practical expertise in OIDC, SAML, OAuth, request signing, and PKI with hands-on product work—ranging from anti-phishing browser extensions to high-scale API gateways serving Firefox’s Pocket integration. Spencer has led teams at startups and enterprises to implement SOC-aligned CI/CD, key rotation and data encryption strategies, and migration projects that reconcile legacy and modern identity platforms. He’s comfortable across backend, web, and mobile stacks and has a knack for turning complex security requirements into auditable, developer-friendly APIs. An underappreciated strength is his focus on operational reliability and compliance automation—CI pipelines and monitoring he builds are designed to both document and enforce security practices.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at The Ohio State University
Github Skills (74)
linux10
idris10
rust9
cargo9
image9
asynchronous9
objectionjs9
png9
modeling9
odm9
nodejs9
mongodb9
rust-lang8
pathofexile8
svg8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
hyperparabolic/Factorio-AlienWasteRefining
Jan 2017 - Jun 2022
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
hyperparabolic/nix-config
Nov 2023 - Mar 2025
Configs for nixos.
Contributions:4 PRs, 245 pushes, 20 branches in 1 year 4 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.