SteveĀ Beattie
Staff Security Engineer at Chainguard
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolSteve Beattie is a Staff Security Engineer with 15 years of specialist experience securing Linux distributions and supply chains, currently focusing on container and runtime security at Chainguard. He spent over a decade at Canonical advancing Ubuntu's security posture in roles from Stable Release Engineer to Engineering Manager and Senior Software Engineer. An upstream AppArmor developer and active open-source contributor, Steve blends deep kernel- and distro-level expertise with practical threat modeling and incident mitigation. Based in Portland, he pairs an MS in Computer Science with hands-on legacy knowledge dating back to early Linux security work at Immunix and Novell. Known for translating complex security constraints into maintainable tooling, he favors pragmatic, upstream-first solutions that reduce downstream risk.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Computer Science, M.S. Computer Science at Oregon Health & Science UniversityB.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at University of Minnesota Duluth
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
stevebeattie/cvelist
Mar 2020 - Jun 2021
Pilot program for CVE submission through GitHub
Contributions:7 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 2 months
securitycvepilot
stevebeattie/melange
Jan 2025 - Feb 2025
build APKs from source code
Contributions:2 reviews, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 1 month
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