Senior Software Engineer at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Long Island City, New York
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Senior Software Engineer
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Advisory Software Engineer
October 2018 to February 2020
Yorktown Heights, NY
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Staff Software Engineer
October 2016 to October 2018
Yorktown Heights, NY
Information Security Engineer
May 2015 to August 2015
Mountain View, CA
Applied Predictive Technologies
Software Engineer
June 2014 to August 2014
Arlington, VA
Free and Open Source Alliance (Singapore)
President
October 2010 to October 2012
Singapore
http://lumexsec.wordpress.com/
Independent Security Researcher and Software Developer
May 2010 to September 2012
KPMG
Penetration Tester and IT Security Auditor
August 2010 to November 2010
Carnegie Mellon University Cylab Usability Privacy and Security Group
Privacy Lab - Undergraduate Researcher
May 2013 to August 2013
Pittsburgh, PA
University of Wollongong
Cryptography Researcher
October 2009 to January 2010
- Technical Lead: Encrypted Container Images for High Assurance Zero Trust Container Platforms- Technical Advisor: Design and Architecture. Trusted Identity Project- Community manager and maintainer of runnc, runtime for Nabla Containers (https://nabla-containers.github.io/)- Designed, Architected and implemented initial prototype for Portieris, an image provenance Kubernetes Integration with Docker Content Trust / Notary (https://github.com/IBM/portieris) and Kubernetes Admission Webhooks and... - Technical Lead: Encrypted Container Images for High Assurance Zero Trust Container Platforms- Technical Advisor: Design and Architecture. Trusted Identity Project- Community manager and maintainer of runnc, runtime for Nabla Containers (https://nabla-containers.github.io/)- Designed, Architected and implemented initial prototype for Portieris, an image provenance Kubernetes Integration with Docker Content Trust / Notary (https://github.com/IBM/portieris) and Kubernetes Admission Webhooks and Initializer technologies.Talks/Papers:Where are your containers running? Stop worrying and start encrypting! (Kubecon + CNC Europe 2020)Adventures in Production with GitOps, Secure Pipelines and Compliance (Kubernetes Forum 2019 Seoul + Sydney)Protecting Sensitive Code with Encrypted Container Images on Kubernetes (Kubecon + CNC China 2019)Enabling High Assurance Container Workloads with Encrypted Images (DockerCon 2019)Container Security and Multi-Tenancy Tales from Kata and Nabla (Kubecon + CNC North America 2018)Nabla Containers: A new approach to container isolation (Kubecon + CNC China 2018)Say Goodbye to Virtualization for a Safer Cloud (USENIX HotCloud 2018)Misc:Designed and developed a POC for disk scrubbing in a virtual private cloud infrastructure.Designed and developed a POC for Blockchain Authorization framework based on OAuth and IBM OpenAPI.Developed simple encryption capabilities for etcd golang api.Designed algorithm to perform updates over machines hosting multiple replica sets in kubernetes environment. Algorithm designed to minimize time/instability via search techniques on a graph based representation.Invented and worked on several security/privacy/cryptography related patents.
What company does Brandon Lum work for?
Brandon Lum works for IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
What is Brandon Lum's role at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center?
Brandon Lum is Senior Software Engineer
What industry does Brandon Lum work in?
Brandon Lum works in the Computer & Network Security industry.
Who are Brandon Lum's colleagues?
Brandon Lum's colleagues are Suzanne Kolpakov, Jetendra Dublish, Khasan Bold, Esther Jeong, Roberta MacDonald, Xu Wu, Boyoung Lee, Vanessia Wu, Jonathan Meltzer, and Kathryn Connor
💼 Past Experience
Brandon Lum has a background in software engineering and has worked in the technical lead and community manager roles for Encrypted Container Images for High Assurance Zero Trust Container Platforms, the Technical Advisor for Design and Architecture for the Trusted Identity Project, as well as the Designer and Architect of the Initial Prototype for Portieris, an image provenance Kubernetes Integration with Docker Content Trust / Notary and Kubernetes Admission Webhooks and Initializer Technologies.
🎓 Education
Brandon Lum's education began with a degree in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 2012. After two years of undergraduate study, Brandon Lum graduated with a 4.0 GPA and a Diploma, Cyber & Digital Security, from Temasek Polytechnic University in 2007. Brandon Lum has experience in the fields of Cyber Security, from both his undergraduate and post-graduate studies.Brandon Lum is currently employed as a Computer Science graduate student at the University of Michigan. He has been employed for the past three years and has thesis work in the coursework of his degree.Brandon Lum is currently required to obtain a graduate degree in Computer Science in order to pursue any professional career options.
💡 Technical & Interpersonal Skills
Brandon Lum has spent most of his life working in the technology industry. He has worked in several industries, including software engineering, information security, and cryptography. He has also worked as a research specialist in these fields. Lum is a senior software engineer at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. He has also been a research specialist at Google, in the privacy andsecurity area.Brandon Lum has work experience in several fields of technology, including software engineering, information security, and cryptography. He has worked in many different companies, some of which he has worked for for two years or longer. Lum is a senior software engineer at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. He has also been a research specialist at Google.
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