EXPERIENCE

Red Teaming is in my DNA

Oct 2025 — Current
▲ Level Up

Security Engineering Manager

Apple

▹ Leading Red Team Operations against iCloud and other internal services. Building, developing, and maintaining a world-class Red Team.
  • ▹ Influence leadership to prioritize security.
  • ▹ Develop, document, and operationalize tactics, techniques, tools, and procedures that model the behaviors of external threat actors.
  • ▹ Plan and execute on sanctioned engagements which generate Red Team Reports and work with system owners to present the results and advise on remediation steps.
  • ▹ Define and maintain a set of standard operating procedures and rules of engagement for Red Team Operations.
  • ▹ Exercise detections and response teams.
  • ▹ Define risk mitigation processes and techniques for large impact, production-targeted attacks.
Sep 2023 — Current

President

Red Team Association

▹ Leading community initiatives and organizing events for offensive cybersecurity education.
  • ▹ Presented offensive security topics to a community of over 400 members.
  • ▹ Created BSides Seattle’s 2024 and 2025 attack/defend CTF.
  • ▹ Mentor security engineers of all levels on technical and nontechnical topics.
  • ▹ Organize monthly workshops and community events.
  • ▹ Manage non-profit operations and strategic direction.
Aug 2022 — Oct 2025

Senior Security Engineer

Apple

▹ Lead Red Team Operations against iCloud and other internal services.
  • ▹ Conducted advanced red team engagements.
  • ▹ Developed custom tooling for offensive operations.
Jun 2021 — Jul 2022
▲ Level Up

Security Engineer II

Amazon

▹ Red Teaming Amazon Consumer Payments.
  • ▹ Lead multiple end-to-end, black-box Red Team engagements, compromising payment critical data affecting hundreds of millions Amazon customers world-wide.
  • ▹ Built the payment security intelligence team’s strategy for remote team comradery and employee retention.
  • ▹ Drove discovered vulnerabilities to resolution by working with customer teams and educating them on different vulnerability classes.
Aug 2019 — Jun 2021

Security Engineer

Amazon

▹ Security engineering and red teaming for Amazon services.
  • ▹ Manufactured IOCs based on ongoing Red Team engagements to help train a new Threat Hunting team and build discovery capabilities.
  • ▹ Pioneered “user-actioned detections” for events where users may be better suited to respond than a SOC.
May 2017 — Aug 2019

Penetration Tester

State Farm

▹ Black box penetration testing numerous targets.
  • ▹ Found, exploited, and remediated critical vulnerabilities.
  • ▹ Weaponized injection vulnerabilities to dump out a database on a public-facing attack surface.
  • ▹ Researched attack software and cloud solutions, aiding in the development of a newly formed Red Team.
  • ▹ Present custom made PoCs, independent research, and new attack techniques to internal offensive security team members.
Feb 2017 — May 2019

Captain

Collegiate Cyber Defense Team

▹ Lead a team of cyber engineers to prevent adversaries exploiting intentionally out-of-date software.
  • ▹ Lead the team in securing multiple heterogenous environments while meeting business needs.
  • ▹ Perform red teaming against the team to help identify weaknesses.
  • ▹ Place 2nd in the 2018 SECCDC competition.
  • ▹ Network segregation, deflattening, and IDS / IPS implementation.
Aug 2017 — Dec 2017

Vulnerability Researcher

Raytheon Cyber Security Innovations

▹ Vulnerability research internship
  • ▹ Develop architecture agnostic static analysis tooling to automatically detect common memory corruption vulnerabilities in tens of thousands of binaries.
  • ▹ Compile the Darwin Kernel on an architecture that has never been done before in the public space.
Apr 2016 — May 2017

President

Information Security Team

▹ Lead multiple workshops on offensive security techniques.
  • ▹ Captained the ‘Kernel Sanders’ CTF team, regularly placing top 5% in the world.
  • ▹ Restructured the organization to include chair positions, enabling further growth of the team.
  • ▹ Obtained funding for a decade-old organization for the first time.
  • ▹ Placed 1st in Raytheon’s CTF at BSides Jacksonville.
  • ▹ Took 3rd place at Florida Center for Cyber Security’s 3rd annual invite-only defense competition.
Jan 2017 — May 2017

Teacher's Assistant

Facebook Web Security

▹ Lead a web penetration testing class.
  • ▹ Demonstrate web penetration testing techniques to illustrate how impactful a vulnerability can be.
  • ▹ Assist students in walking through OWASP’s Security Shephard web security project.
  • ▹ Helped students understand how to develop under the LAMP stack.
May 2016 — Aug 2016

IT Security Intern: Enterprise Data Protection

The Home Depot

▹ Guardium specialization; preventing unauthorized and anomalous database access.
  • ▹ Automated tasks using Python and PHP to save 10 man-hours/week.
  • ▹ Created a web portal to replace the provided interface in database access monitoring software, aiding in the prevention of financial and reputational loss of the organization.