Mike Arpaia
Managing Partner at Moonfire
United States
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Top SchoolMike Arpaia is a computer scientist and Managing Partner at Moonfire with 13 years of experience building machine learning, distributed systems, and security-focused software from Boulder, Colorado. At Moonfire he defines and executes the firm's AI technical strategy, architecting data and ML solutions that accelerate and de-risk venture investing. He previously led the productionalization of distributed embedding-based search at Workday and co-founded Kolide, where he built backend, infrastructure, and OS-level telemetry tooling. Earlier he created osquery at Facebook — now the most-starred security project on GitHub — and has contributed to projects such as Velero and Homebrew, spanning OS instrumentation to Kubernetes and packaging ecosystems. His blend of low-level security engineering, production ML architecture, and experience running remote engineering teams gives him uncommon operational empathy for turning research into reliable, secure products.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Stevens Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (43)
kubernetes-pod10
api-doc10
kubernetes10
authorizations10
filesystem10
c-language10
package-management10
file-systems10
user-authentication10
authentication10
file-system10
file-io10
filesystems10
file-operations10
osquery10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
kolide/fleet
Jul 2016 - Aug 2018
A flexible control server for osquery fleets
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 247 commits, 106 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Mike's commits focused on implementing authentication, authorization, and user management features within the Kolide Fleet project. The changes included the creation of user models, validation of passwords, and the addition of various endpoints for managing users and their roles. The code modified files related to user management, authentication, and database interactions, all of which suggest a strong focus on back-end development.
host-instrumentationmacadminsecurityinfosecosquery
osquery/osquery
Jul 2014 - Mar 2018
SQL powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:3 releases, 713 commits, 200 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily contributed to the internal structure and security aspects of the osquery project. They addressed path generation issues and made changes to the internal file structure. The user also implemented file system functionality and added core functionality such as the reading of config files and the listing of users. They also were involved with implementing the API.
instrumentationanalyticsoperating-systemsecuritysql
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