Spencer Mccreary
Senior Software Engineer at Block
Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolSpencer Mccreary is a Senior Software Engineer based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with 11 years of experience building secure, production-grade systems across embedded and cloud environments. His career spans roles at Block, Invitae, UKG, Ultimate Software and Xerox, evolving from Embedded C++ development to focused security engineering and platform hardening. At Block he brings practical security expertise informed by prior positions as a Senior Security Software Engineer where he balanced threat mitigation with developer productivity. He pairs hands-on coding and architecture skills with a pragmatic approach to secure design, often translating complex security requirements into auditable, maintainable implementations. Trained in computer science at SUNY Buffalo and Jefferson Community College, he combines formal CS foundations with a track record of adapting to diverse tech stacks and problem domains. Contactable at spencer.a.mccreary@gmail.com, he’s the kind of engineer who moves between low-level systems detail and high-level security strategy.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Jefferson Community CollegeBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at State University of New York at Buffalo
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (109)
tink10
porting10
ntdll10
mutation9
secrets9
validation9
crypto9
controller9
security9
gatekeeper9
cpp9
syscall9
java9
secret-management9
conftest8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
worlvlhole/dotfiles
Mar 2015 - May 2019
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
worlvlhole/maladapt
Oct 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:10 PRs, 35 pushes, 7 branches in 1 month
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