Solomon Rubin
Skills
Languages: Go, Java, TypeScript, Python, Rust, React, Bash
Infrastructure and Data: Kubernetes, Docker, AWS/GCP/Azure, Helm/Flux/Argo, Spark/Iceberg/Nessie, SQL/NoSQL, OpenTelemetry, Grafana/Prometheus, Microservices, CI/CD
Leadership: Technical Direction, Architecture Review, Team Mentorship, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Agile, Conflict Resolution
Education
Rochester Institute of Technology
BS, Concentration in Computer Science & Cyber Security
Cornell University
Project Management Certificate
Northeastern University
Computer Science Certificate
Awards
| US Attorney General's Award |
| Federal Law Enforcement Award |
| MITRE Director's Award |
| National Web Design Medalist (SkillsUSA) |
Accomplishments
| Conference Speaker, GitLab Commit 2019: Open Source in the Federal Government |
| SAFe Agile Certified |
| President of Linux User Group and FOSS group at RIT |
Summary
Engineering leader with 10+ years building security products across corporate and startup environments, as both a manager and a staff-level technical lead.
Experience
| Fortinet (Lacework) | Washington DC |
| Staff Software Engineer | April 2024 to Present |
- Providing technical oversight to 9 engineers and owning 7 data acquisition and evaluation services running 800M evaluations per day, feeding data to the entire CNAPP platform. (serub.in/s/cnapp)
- Driving a multi-year modernization of the core vulnerability data pipeline, reducing data lifecycle time from weeks to hours and resource consumption by 98%.
- Improving reliability and developer experience across services through cross-service tracing and targeted refactoring, cutting alert noise by over 90% and accelerating delivery cycles 5x.
- Partnering with customer success and product to set roadmap direction, reducing customer-facing tickets by 80% and average resolution time from months to under two weeks.
| FOSSA | San Francisco, CA |
| Engineering Manager | Sept 2019 to Jan 2024 |
- Established and supervised a team of 5 engineers and was responsible for developing an industry-leading security product generating over $7M ARR. (serub.in/s/fossa)
- Oversaw and contributed to the development of a best-in-class vulnerability database that supported vulnerability discovery and remediation at scale within Fortune 50 companies.
- Increased customer confidence in vulnerability data by building data review policies and processes that resulted in a reduction in false-positive reports by 90%.
| Senior Software Engineer |
- Collaborated closely with Chief Revenue Officer to design and implement a technical framework for a new pricing structure to attract a new customer profile, enabling multiple 6-figure+ contracts.
- Designed and led technical development on an OCI image scanner and data pipeline using Go and NodeJS to detect vulnerabilities for Fortune 500 customers, leading to multiple 6-figure upsells.
| MITRE Corporation | McLean, VA |
| Cyber Security and Software Engineer | May 2016 to Sept 2019 |
- Led a team of 3 engineers, working directly with federal supervisory agents, to modernize a digital forensics tool for field-deployed clusters used by top digital crime teams. (serub.in/s/mitre)
- Advised and worked directly with federal agents in a sensitive crimes unit to collect, manage, and analyze digital evidence. Developed image and language detection models to automate analysis.
| MIT Lincoln Laboratory | Lexington, MA |
| Software Engineer | Feb 2014 to Aug 2015 |
- Developed ground-truth verification systems for Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research project (LINEAR). Verified 4 million extraterrestrial objects. (serub.in/s/linear)
- Developed and integrated machine vision algorithms to detect moving asteroids across a petabyte-scale image processing pipeline.
Projects
| Pulse SMS Web |
Maintainer of the official open source web client for Pulse SMS, serving more than 1 million users. (serub.in/s/pulse).
| Open Source Contributions |
Contributor to Deja, a Go shell productivity daemon with 500+ stars, and Mira, open source firmware reviving Spotify's Car Thing. Core contributor to blank.space, a Farcaster client platform.