About

I’m a Principal Engineer at MITRE, where I…

Lead the development of Hipcheck, a tool to empower open source maintainers and users to assess the supply chain risk of their dependencies.

Serve as a member of the OmniBOR Core Team, including leading creation of the Rust library and omnibor CLI.

Where to Find Me

GitHub · Bluesky · Mastodon · LinkedIn · Hacker News · Lobste.rs · Reddit

Getting in Touch

I don’t check every platform equally often. If you want to get in touch, the best way to do it is to direct message me on Bluesky.

If you want to chat securely, ask me for my Signal username.

AI Policy

The words on this site were written by a human (Andrew) with care. If AI content is ever posted to this site, it will always be made clear what content is AI-generated.

This statement was inspired by Adam Chalmers.

My Name

“Lilley Brinker” is my full last name. Two parts, no hyphen. When my wife and I got married we combined our last names without a hyphen. My last name is not “Brinker” and it is not correct to call me “Mr. Brinker”.

“Lilley” is pronounced like the word “lily”.

Previous Things

Served as Technical Editor for a book on Rust procedural macros · Earned a Master of Computer Science degree from Rice University · Maintained a list of programming languages written in Rust · Wrote educational articles about Rust at Possible Rust · Wrote other programming articles at Suspect Semantics · Taught “Introduction to Rust“ at MITRE · Contributed to the official Rust documentation and the Rustonomicon · Spoke at RustConf and Rust Belt Rust · Taught “Introduction to Programming Language Theory” at CSUSB · and more