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Heather Simpson
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1,183
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Language
English
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Summary

Andrew Kelly, a Senior Security Engineer at GitLab, focuses on ensuring the security of GitLab's products by working with teams and HackerOne reporters to investigate and address vulnerabilities. He finds collaborating with the HackerOne community rewarding as it often leads to new insights about application security. His current initiatives include being an application security stable counterpart for the Growth and Enablement teams and enabling GitLab's Secure tooling across major product repositories. Kelly emphasizes the importance of writing unit tests for unexpected cases to improve security and shares that his interest in security was sparked by early internet experiences and pop culture. He applauds GitLab's commitment to transparency in security practices and advocates for integrating vulnerability management into the software development lifecycle across the tech industry. A personal experience taught him the importance of verifying website authenticity and using multi-factor authentication, and he humorously notes his preference for VIM over EMACS and his fondness for dog-related emojis.

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