Education

Experience

Okta - Staff Application Security Engineer

June 2018 - PRESENT

Product Security - Security Reviews
  • Conduct security reviews which consist of: design reviews (threat modeling), code review, and penetration testing of Okta's product and functionality, as well as, Auth0 to discover unintentional behaviors and vulnerabilities
  • Contributed and developed the current processes of the Application Security/Product Security team
  • Collaborate with engineers to develop and implement mitigation strategies
  • Managing Okta's Bug Bounty Program
  • Managing the teams Oncall processes
  • Developed a Slack bot to assist in cross team communication and collaboration
  • In short, I find vulnerabilities and break things

Okta - Senior Application Security Engineer

February 2020 - October 2021

REX - Application Security
  • I got better at hacking and breaking things

Okta - Application Security Engineer

June 2018 - February 2020

REX - Application Security
  • I hack and break things

Synack, Inc. - Security Analyst

June 2017 - June 2018

Vulnerability Operations
  • Performed validation and impact analysis, reproduction, packing, and escalation of vulnerabilities of client delivery
  • Provide client-facing technical insights and explanation on the severity and importance of the vulnerabilities
  • Perform penetration testing on web and mobile applications and hosts provided by the client
  • Create automated tools written in Python to help perform everyday tasks

Synack Red Team - Security Researcher

January 2017 - June 2017

While being on the Synack Red Team I was not an employee of Synack. The Synack Red Team is a private network of highly-curated and vetted security researchers from across the globe. Basically, another bug bounty program that is more private.

  • Discovered over 100 vulnerabilities in the span of half a year

HackerOne Researcher - Security Researcher

December 2015 - April 2018

While being a Security Researcher for HackerOne, I was not an employee of HackerOne. HackerOne is a bug bounty platform which allows security researchers to safely report vulnerabilities to companies.