Vince
Consultant
Belgium
Summary
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RockstarVince is a consultant with a decade of hands-on software engineering experience, blending open-source contributions with a strong focus on security and front-end polish. Based in Belgium, he has enhanced widely used projects—adding OWASP ModSecurity CRS configurability and tests to Puppet's Apache module and improving accessibility and CSS structure for privacytools.io. He combines pragmatic UI refinements (alt text, markup fixes) with deeper security work around request/response body handling and anomaly thresholds. Comfortable across the stack, Vince pairs attention to user experience with practical security engineering, making systems both safer and more usable.
10 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
46reputation
4kreached
2answers
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Github Skills (18)
css10
apache10
security10
modsecurity10
html10
website-design10
testing9
puppeteer9
user-interface9
puppet9
web-development9
python-modules8
accessibility8
jenkins6
apache-kafka6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
privacytools/privacytools.io
Oct 2018 - Feb 2019
🛡🛠 You are being watched. Protect your privacy against global mass surveillance.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:85 commits, 45 PRs, 18 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Vince primarily contributed to front-end development, focusing on the improvement of the user interface of the privacytools.io website. Their work involved adding missing alt text to images, removing unnecessary HTML tags, fixing invalid list formatting, and reworking elements for enhanced visual presentation. These changes aimed to refine the website's appearance and improve the user experience. The user also refactored code by implementing a new class for elements, which helped streamline the website's CSS.
protectprivacysurveillanceprivacy-protectionencryption
puppetlabs/puppetlabs-apache
Jul 2022 - Dec 2022
Puppet module for the Apache httpd server, maintained by Puppet, Inc.
Role in this project:Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 12 commits, 6 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Vince's contributions focused on enhancing the security features of the Apache module. They implemented functionality to configure the OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set (CRS), including paranoia level, and anomaly threshold settings for vhosts. Furthermore, they added tests for the configured parameters and provided options for request and response body access.
puppetpuppet-modulesupportedapachehttpd-server
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