Tagged “work”

At Udemy we had a two day workshop/game given a couple times a year for anyone who wanted to join. It was a fun way of introducing penetration testing to web application developers. As a developer we may know to use the right database library that prevents things like an SQL injection, but do we really ever get to experience a real SQL injection? So we review the top 10 web vulnerabilities, put on... [read more]

When I was working at Udemy, there was a new charter for all services to communicate internally via grpc, and all for public facing traffic to use GraphQL. Some teams were using these technologies a bit, but for most of them these were both new technologies to learn. Since I had GraphQL experience from previous jobs, I was tasked with doing this work for my team, Adaptive Assessments. This was one... [read more]

This was a post I wrote for the PLOS tech blog. I later started writing a book with the same title, but eventually moved on to other projects before finishing it. As PLOS has grown (in users, articles, and developers) we have put a lot of effort into splitting our original applications into groups of services. My team is responsible for several web services. We have worked on finding open source... [read more]

When I was working at The Public Library of Science (PLOS), one of my co-workers ran into Richard Stallman on the streets of San Francisco - presumably flown in to give a talk at some local conference. Somehow my co-worker talking him into giving a talk at PLOS. After all, our mission (making science/research free and accessible to all), is somewhat parallel to the mission of the The Free Software... [read more]