Stephen Smalley
Senior Technical Leader Trust Mechanisms Laboratory For Advanced Cybersecurity Research
Laurel, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolStephen Smalley is a senior technical leader with 26 years of experience in system security architecture, currently heading Trust Mechanisms research at the NSA's Laboratory for Advanced Cybersecurity Research. He is a founding developer and long-time lead of the SELinux project and the SE for Android effort, partnering with Google, Samsung, Red Hat and others to harden Linux and Android deployments. His work spans runtime integrity, eBPF, confidential computing and hardware-enforced memory safety, and he has led creation of secure Linux baselines for high-assurance environments. A pragmatic engineer as well as researcher, he combines deep upstream open-source contributions (notably to SELinux and Android framework security) with hands-on policy and tooling development that improves deployability and debuggability in production systems.
26 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Mathematics at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (29)
administrator10
debug10
filesystem10
security-hardening10
group-policy10
system-programming10
admin10
c1110
policies10
linux-kernel10
security10
c1710
kernel10
system10
selinux10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
stephensmalley/meta-selinux
Mar 2016 - May 2024
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 8 years 3 months
branchesmetaselinuxyocto
stephensmalley/xenclient-oe
Feb 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:80 pushes, 87 branches in 9 months
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