Luke Young
Summary
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RockstarLuke Young is a Principal Security Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with a strong track record of finding and responsibly disclosing critical vulnerabilities across major companies and open platforms. With roughly a decade of hands-on experience in offensive security, bug bounties, and product security roles at LinkedIn, Uber, and now Confluent, he has authored numerous CVEs and ranked highly on Bugcrowd. He pairs deep investigative skills with engineering rigor—contributing to the CodeQL Go extractor and enhancing its SQL testing framework—demonstrating comfort with both security research and code-level tooling. Luke is pragmatic and curious, often turning exploratory hacking into repeatable tests and library improvements that strengthen teams’ defensive posture.
4 years of coding experience
Github Skills (8)
program-analysis10
go10
sql10
codeql10
testing10
golang9
datalog9
static-analysis8
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
github/codeql-go
Feb 2022 - Feb 2022
The CodeQL extractor and libraries for Go.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 5 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:Luke's contributions focused on enhancing the SQL testing framework within the CodeQL for Go project. They added new clauses (Having, JoinClause, OrderByClause) to SQL tests and updated the library's definitions. The user also upgraded a dependency (`github.com/Masterminds/squirrel`) and updated related stub files, which indicates involvement in library management and maintaining the integrity of the testing environment. This includes expansion of testing utilities.
codeqlgogolangdatalogprogram-analysis
lyoung-confluent/os
Sep 2023 - Aug 2025
Main package repository for production Wolfi images
Contributions:18 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 11 months
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