Xavier René-corail
Senior Director at GitHub
San Francisco, California, United States
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RockstarXavier René-corail is a seasoned software engineering leader with 25 years of experience and more than a decade driving development practices, currently leading GitHub Security Lab from San Francisco to strengthen open source security. He combines hands-on engineering with organizational change—having designed and run an offshore development factory, coached 300+ engineers in Agile and Software Craftsmanship, and served on a large-scale agility steering committee. At GitHub he builds bridges between Dev and Sec, automating bounty workflows and issue duplication to streamline vulnerability triage and scoring within the high-profile securitylab repository. A frequent conference speaker and practical coach, he blends XP, Lean, DevOps and OODA-inspired practices to help teams deliver well-designed, secure software at scale.
9 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (12)
github-ci10
javascript10
issue-tracking10
githubaction-workflow10
security10
typescript-types9
apidoc9
automation9
automations9
typescripts9
typescript9
api9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
github/securitylab
Nov 2019 - Nov 2022
Resources related to GitHub Security Lab
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:82 reviews, 117 commits, 92 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Xavier's commits primarily focus on replicating bounty issues and related processes within the GitHub Security Lab repository. They developed a system to duplicate external issues internally, including the generation of internal issue content, and the creation of tasks and scoring guidelines. Their work includes the creation of issue cards and comments and they also implemented a check for duplicate submissions. The user also made code adjustments in response to the requirements of different bounty types.
github-security-labsecuritycvevulnerabilitylab
github/codeql-learninglab-actions
Jan 2020 - Nov 2020
Actions and Images for use in Learning Lab courses for CodeQL
Contributions:2 reviews, 91 commits, 34 PRs in 9 months
labcodeqllearning-lab
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