Erran Carey
Principal Fullstack Engineer at GitLab
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolErran Carey is a Principal Fullstack Engineer based in Belfast with 13 years of experience building secure, scalable developer tooling and platform services. He blends hands-on fullstack development with a strong DevOps and automation mindset, shipping integrations for editor extensions, AI gateways, and security platforms at GitLab and Rapid7. Erran has led cross-functional efforts to embed DevSecOps into developer workflows—authoring TypeScript and Lua extensions for editors like VS Code and Neovim and operationalizing vulnerability validation and breach simulation tooling. Known for moving quickly from prototype to production, he thrives on integrating security capabilities directly into the dev experience and quietly champions single-engineer incubation projects that drive product innovation.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma - Summa Cum Laude STEM, High School Diploma - Summa Cum Laude STEM at McNeil High School
English, Spanish
Github Skills (82)
api-management10
reverse-proxy10
saml10
serverless10
microservices10
cloud-native10
nexpose10
ai10
obsolete10
aws-credentials10
kubernetes10
artificial-intelligence10
kubernetes-ingress10
okta10
aws10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
erran-r7/chef-style-guide
Jul 2013 - Jul 2013
Contributions:14 commits in 1 day
rapid7-cookbooks/dvwa
Jun 2013 - Jul 2013
Contributions:34 commits in 1 month
damn-vulnerable-web-applicationvulnerablesecuritydvwaweb-application
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