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 · Twitter / X · 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 ways to do it are to direct message me on Bluesky or Twitter / X.

My preference is Bluesky. I am still on Twitter / X because there are key communities I am part of which are still there. I would love to leave someday.

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