Aaron Peterson
Director Of Information Security
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarAaron Peterson is a Director of Information Security based in Los Angeles with a decade of experience blending hands-on engineering and security leadership. He drives security strategy and operational programs at Kelley Drye & Warren LLP while maintaining a developer’s perspective—evidenced by substantive contributions to Google’s Turbinia project, where he enhanced core forensics automation, cloud evidence handling, and report generation. Comfortable at the intersection of digital forensics, cloud platforms, and backend engineering, he translates technical complexity into auditable, scalable controls. Known for pragmatic problem solving, Aaron brings both incident-ready tooling experience and a propensity for improving developer workflows to enterprise security initiatives.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (14)
gcp10
it-security10
google-cloud-platform10
extraction10
extractor10
computer-forensics10
google-cloud10
python10
security10
json9
logging8
subprocess8
api-design8
testing7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
google/turbinia
Nov 2016 - Dec 2022
Automation and Scaling of Digital Forensics Tools
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:38 releases, 658 reviews, 539 commits in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Turbinia framework, focusing on digital forensics tools. The commits demonstrate modifications to the core job execution flow, including updates to the base classes and result handling, and the implementation of functionality to handle file extractions and report generation. Furthermore, the user made significant code changes focusing on supporting new evidence types and cloud functionality, including work with Google Cloud resources.
security-automationpythonsecurity-toolsdfirbugbounty
aarontp/dftimewolf
Jun 2018 - Sep 2024
A framework for orchestrating forensic collection, processing and data export
Contributions:59 pushes, 17 branches in 6 years 3 months
forensicdatawarehouseexportdata-exportdata-warehouse
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