Alex Cline
Senior Staff Product Security Architect at A18e, LLC
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Cline is a Senior Staff Product Security Architect with 15 years of experience designing and hardening security for product-focused engineering teams across automotive, cloud, and enterprise environments. Based in Pittsburgh, he has led product security at Argo AI and currently advises Latitude AI while running his own consultancy, A18e, demonstrating both corporate leadership and entrepreneurial initiative. His hands-on work includes enhancing open-source security tooling—contributing ELB, IAM certificate, KMS rotation checks and a VPN watcher to the widely used Netflix/security_monkey project—reflecting a strong AWS security and auditing focus. Alex combines systems-level engineering roots with product security strategy, bridging vulnerability detection, secure design, and operational monitoring. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex threat models into practical, auditable controls that scale with modern cloud and automotive platforms.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Bachelor of Science (BS) at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania
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Github Skills (13)
audit10
aws10
auditing10
audit-logging10
code-auditing10
python10
audit-trail10
ias9
google-cloud-kms9
load-balancer9
load-balancing9
vpn8
devops6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Netflix/security_monkey
Dec 2015 - Jun 2017
Security Monkey monitors AWS, GCP, OpenStack, and GitHub orgs for assets and their changes over time.
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:7 commits, 10 PRs, 15 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Alex's contributions focus on enhancing the security monitoring capabilities of the `security_monkey` repository. They added new checks for security vulnerabilities, specifically related to Elastic Load Balancers (ELBs), IAM SSL certificates, and KMS key rotation. Furthermore, they integrated a VPN Connection watcher and auditor. These changes indicate a focus on improving the system's ability to identify and alert on potential security risks within an AWS environment.
monitorsgcpvcentersecuritymonkey
AlexCline/upctoasin.com
Jun 2013 - Jun 2017
Contributions:64 commits, 1 push, 4 comments in 4 years
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