Dominic Couture

- Lead the security team's dogfooding program to provide actionable feedback to improve GitLab's security features for all users - Identify, document, and drive mitigation efforts for security risks

- Help define the future of the new Product Security Engineering team - Enhance security along the software development lifecycle by creating “paved roads” - Contribute product-first code that enhances the security of GitLab’s software assets - Reduce the manual burden of the Application Security team by building automation and product improvements

- Extension of the previous position with a focus on far-reaching security initiatives - Ownership of the bug bounty program

- Code and design review for security concerns and best practices - Threat modeling and application security reviews for new and existing features - Vulnerability management - Validation of security fixes - Building and improving secure coding training material - Automating all tasks and tests that can be automated - Bug bounty program triage

- .NET development (C#, ASP.NET Web API, Windows Services) - Angular 7 front-end development - Legacy PHP application maintenance - Web application security testing - ELK stack powered search engine - Code review

- .NET development (C#, ASP.NET MVC and Web API, WPF, SQL Server as well as other legacy technologies) - TypeScript, JavaScript and CSS front-end development - Focus on the maintainability of code with training, reviews and as much automated error-checking as possible (security analysis, automated tests, static analysis, custom scripts to detect common errors) - Automation of the continuous integration process and DevOps to improve the speed and quality of builds by several orders of magnitude - Agile development methodologies (Scrum, TDD) - Talks and training given in-house

- Development of a system that sends regular reports to customers with data and frequency based on their user profile. The objective of the project was to obtain higher stability than the system already in place and low maintenance while reducing loads on the servers. (Java back-end, MySQL database, Ruby on Rails management dashboard) - Various smaller-scale projects involving Ruby on Rails, Java, MySQL and Redis.

- Design and implementation of an experiment to study pyroelectric luminescence in ferroelectric materials.

Information security specialization

Changed to a computer science degree before finishing.