Harry Rybacki
Product Owner, Product Security at Enterprise Open Source Software Company
Raleigh, North Carolina, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolHarry Rybacki is a security-focused chief architect with 13 years of experience building and leading teams across open source, cloud, and compliance-driven products. He combines hands-on engineering—contributing backend features to the Center for Open Science’s OSF registration workflows—with leadership roles at Red Hat and Rapid7 where he shaped cryptography, identity, and container security practices. Known for balancing inquisitive problem-solving with empathy, he aligns distributed teams through clear architecture decisions and risk-driven pivots that delivered an Alpha with ~100 pilot customers. A former military satellite comms specialist, he brings disciplined operational rigor to cloud-native security and a long-standing advocacy for privacy and reproducible research. Based in Raleigh and fluent in coordinating global remote teams, he excels at translating complex security requirements into pragmatic, auditable systems.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Graduated magna cum laude, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Graduated magna cum laude at University of North Carolina at Greensboro
English, Czech
Github Skills (10)
back-end-development10
python10
django10
jsonwebtoken9
jwt9
rest-api8
api-rest8
restful-api8
api-design8
database-design8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
CenterForOpenScience/osf.io
Jul 2013 - Sep 2015
Facilitating Open Science
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:413 commits, 110 PRs, 613 comments in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Harry primarily worked on backend features related to the registration process within the OSF. Their contributions involved integrating functionality for registration retractions, including data migration to a new `Retraction` class, defining the conditions for retractions, and implementing approval/disapproval workflows using JSON Web Tokens. They also worked on enforcing privacy restrictions on registrations to meet the needs of the repository's purpose of facilitating Open Science.
pythonsciencedjango-rest-frameworkdjangojavascript
cos-labs/scinet
May 2013 - Mar 2014
Contributions:109 commits in 10 months
citationsscinetosfcrowdsourcing
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