Andrew Lilley Brinker alilleybrinker

Hi, I'm Andrew! 👋

I am a Principal Engineer at MITRE, where I work on a few different things:

⚠️ Support the development of CVE, the world's largest system for tracking vulnerabilities in software and hardware.
🔍 Lead the development of Hipcheck, a tool for automated supply chain risk assessment of software repositories.
🖇️ Contribute to OmniBOR (formerly GitBOM), a standard and tooling for recording build inputs for software artifacts.

🛡️ Wrote "Memory Safety for Skeptics," published in the ACM Queue.
🗒️ Write on my personal blog about topics like memory safety, open source software, and software supply chain security.
🦀 Write at Possible Rust with intermediate-level articles teaching what's possible in the Rust programming language.

🗨️ Keep a list of languages written in Rust.
⁉️ Maintain woah, a Result type that separates errors you can handle from errors you can't.
🏷️ Maintain semver-explain, a CLI tool for explaining SemVer requirements.
🛑 Maintain replace_err, which adds a replace_err method for Result.
🏗️ Maintain pathbuf, a convenient macro for building PathBufs.
🪄 Created FindCargo.cmake, a CMake module for interoperating with Cargo.
⏲️ Wrote dcalc, a CLI duration calculator.
🐱 Wrote good-cat, a cat that hates pipes.
📎 Wrote gccarch, a tool for getting info on GCC's supported architectures.
📆 Wrote skej, a little analyzer for concurrent schedules.