Software Engineer at Bridgewater Associates
July 2018 — November 2019 (1 years and 4 months)
Jacob worked on a variety of projects to improve Bridgewater's trading app-security posture.
- Insider Threat Investigation Toolset
- Shipped a set of 3 investigation tools to mitigate insider threat attack vectors each included tie-ins to AWS infrastructure and a React/Typescript frontend
- Shipped multithreaded front end data processing pipelines for rendering graph data on an HTML5 Canvas with more than ten thousand nodes and twenty thousand edges
- Decreased staff training time by three days through wrapping complicated but powerful graph analysis tools into a user-friendly React user interface
- Proxy Policy Configuration Engine
- Mitigated risk for over 1,000 policy exception by integrating Bridgewater's proxy configuration engine with RSA Archer
- Built a proxy configuration engine that tracks over one thousand active policy exceptions in React and Golang
- Security Infrastructure
- Migrated a Docker build pipeline to Bazel for 80% smaller builds and reduced attack surface
- Improved critical infrastructure visibility by 90% though new tooling for packet capture
- Grew AWS Terraform adoption by 5x through education sessions and team demos
- Embedded static code analysis in over 100 CI/CD pipelines with SonarCloud
- Implemented Terraform-backed multi-availability-zone AWS infrastructure with RDS and Fargate to store and process terabytes of graph data