Wayne Starr
Staff Software Engineer at Defense Unicorns
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWayne Starr is a Staff Software Engineer and DevSecOps practitioner with 11 years of experience building secure, production-grade software across web, cloud, infrastructure, desktop, and mobile platforms. He holds a BS in Software Engineering summa cum laude from RIT and has applied Agile and XP practices to lead and coach teams in both Defense Innovation Unit projects and Air Force software programs. Currently at Defense Unicorns, he focuses on cloud-native tooling and supply-chain security—contributing to the open-source Zarf project by enhancing package management, SBOM generation, and air-gap deployment features. Comfortable across TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, Python, and C#, Wayne brings a rare blend of operational security mindset and full-stack development, shaped by boots-on-the-ground military software delivery. He is based in San Antonio and known for pragmatic refactoring and test-driven improvements that reduce risk in constrained or disconnected environments.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering, summa cum laude, Software Engineering, summa cum laude at Rochester Institute of Technology
English
Github Skills (14)
cli10
command-line10
command-line-interface10
sbom10
go10
package-management10
testing10
dockers9
kubernetes-pods9
helm9
docker9
kubernetes9
cloud-native8
gitops7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
zarf-dev/zarf
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
DevSecOps for Air Gap & Limited-Connection Systems. https://zarf.dev/
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1702 reviews, 194 commits, 677 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Wayne primarily contributed to the development of the Zarf CLI, focusing on features related to package management and deployment. They implemented a new `--tmpdir` command flag and refactored common options across commands, including tests. Furthermore, they addressed bugs related to package removal, and made enhancements to the documentation, code generation scripts, and testing procedures. They also worked on improving SBOM handling, including generating SBOMs and improving the inspection tool.
airgapconnectiongovernmentgapoci
Racer159/kiwi-tv
Mar 2016 - Aug 2018
Contributions:153 commits, 144 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 4 months
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