Aaron Weaver
Security Consultant Cloud & AppSec Penetration Testing
Pottstown, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Weaver is a security consultant with 11 years of hands-on experience building and scaling application security programs, now focused on Cloud & AppSec penetration testing. He has led security teams as Director of Security and architected automated AppSec tooling and WAF management across large organizations, blending DevOps automation with pragmatic threat hunting. A core contributor to DefectDojo, he has improved its back-end, CI/CD, and import parsers—demonstrating a penchant for improving security toolchains as well as assessments. His skills span mobile and embedded security, secure architecture, and developer training, and he’s known for translating complex security controls into usable developer workflows. Based in Pottstown, PA, he combines deep technical craft with public speaking and training experience to operationalize security at scale.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bob Jones University
Swahili
Github Skills (9)
python10
django10
xml-parsing10
dockers9
security9
docker9
automations7
devsecops7
automation7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
DefectDojo/django-DefectDojo
Jan 2016 - Mar 2021
DevSecOps, ASPM, Vulnerability Management. All on one platform.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 1 review, 676 commits in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily contributed to the Django back-end codebase. Their commits focused on fixing spelling errors, implementing support for importing Checkmarx findings by adding a parser and UI elements, and fixing a type mismatch in the Burp import function. They also added support for Docker and improved the functionality of the CI/CD pipeline.
pythondjangovulnerability-managementbugbountydefectdojo
DefectDojo/defectdojo_api
Nov 2016 - May 2019
Python API library for DefectDojo
Contributions:24 releases, 47 commits, 6 PRs in 2 years 6 months
apipythondefectdojoapi-library
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