Education
Texas A&M University, College Station
Bachelors of Science in Computer Science,
Minor in Business Administration
Languages
English, German
Skills
Programming Languages
Python, C\C++, C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS, HTML 5, T-SQL
Technologies
Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Flask, Node.js, D3.js, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Azure
Active Directory, SQL Server/MySQL, Linux/Ubuntu, Windows, Windows Server
Organizational
Recruiting, Public Speaking, Mentoring
Work
Aug 2019 - Present
Lyft
Staff Engineer, Behavioral Engineering and Red Team
- Help prioritize and prove Lyft’s security efforts through Red Team exercises.
- Created tooling enabling the gamification of security behaviors.
- Technical leader of Red Team, security automation and security scaling efforts at Lyft.
- Created CTF infrastructure for Security onboarding training for all new engineers.
- Major contributor to Cartography
Jun 2014 - Aug 2019
Microsoft
Senior Security Software Development Engineer, Azure Red Team
- Information on The Azure Red Team is available in our white
paper
- Presented advanced Cloud Post Exploitation Techniques
at Infiltrate 2017
- Improving Azure security by conducting penetration tests against Production Azure infrastructure
and services.
- Reinforcing the "Assume Breach" mindset across all Azure services by emulating Advanced
Persistent Threats.
- Developing attack oriented tools that scale the breadth of Azure.
- Presented at BlueHat (Microsoft's Internal Security Conference) and other internal security
conferences.
- Working with the Blue Team post breach to identify necessary improvements in prevention,
detection and response from Advanced Persistent Threats.
- Completed the Offensive Security Certified Expert course.
- The effectiveness of the security team systems and procedures is evident in the public's
reaction to Microsoft's security posture. http://nyti.ms/1j6pSaR
Jun 2010 - July 2014
Microsoft
Software Development Engineer in Test II
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Features (Designed, Implemented, Tested)
- External Data Connections
- Expression Evaluation
- Access Apps for Office
- Shipped Microsoft Access 2010 (SP1), 2013, and worked on Access "Next".
- Created scribe - a test automation tool that creates automated tests from recording user
actions.
- Helped move Access from a client database to a web based app creation tool
- Member of Agile committee that implemented Agile across the Access team.
- Speaker at TechReady, MVP summits, and various other conferences.
- Rewrote automation framework for the web and enabled targeting our JavaScript based runtime in
tests.
- Did university recruiting, speaking, and interviewing at Texas A&M in the spring of 2011, 2012,
2013.
- Drove security for the team. Advised and pen tested every feature against web based threats -
XSS, XSRF, SQL Injection
Summer 2009
Continental Airlines (Now United Airlines)
Web Development Intern
- Designed and implemented US e-Verify system for HR Department
- Worked with Homeland Security and Social Security Administration to verify employee work
eligibility
- Developed and maintained custom .NET web controls for employee travel reservation system
Projects
Hurleyisms.com
Co-Designed and implement Hurleyisms.com for a client. Hurleyisms is a database of 1000+ hilarious
lines to drop on your photography subjects.