Alex Manners
Valdosta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Manners is a security engineer with seven years of experience combining infrastructure/DevOps, offensive security, and software engineering across public and private sectors, now serving on Meta’s security team while running his own cybersecurity consultancy. A former United States Air Force Cyber Warfare Operations Officer (Captain), he brings operational rigor to secure-by-design solutions, training, and hands-on engineering. He contributes to notable open-source tooling—helping enhance MITRE CALDERA’s backend with multi-executor support, agent trust mechanisms, and adversary/ability management—demonstrating a focus on realistic adversary emulation and secure agent control. Based in Valdosta, GA, he blends leadership, practical offensive insight, and systems-thinking from an engineering management background to deliver measurable security improvements.
7 years of coding experience
Post Graduate, Post Graduate at Loomis Chaffee SchoolBachelors of Science in Engineering, Engineering Management with Systems Analysis; Engineering, Bachelors of Science in Engineering, Engineering Management with Systems Analysis; Engineering at Miami University
Github Skills (16)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
apache/caldera
May 2019 - May 2020
Automated Adversary Emulation Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:105 commits, 195 PRs, 196 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the platform by implementing features and addressing bugs related to agent management, planning, and reporting. The code changes include support for multiple executors, platform selection, and agent beacon control. In addition, the user made several security-related changes, such as implementing a trust mechanism for agents and enabling deletion of adversaries and abilities.
emulationadversary-emulationcalderasecurity-automationred-team
mitre/chain
May 2019 - Nov 2019
A CALDERA plugin
Contributions:28 commits, 38 PRs, 21 pushes in 6 months
caldera-plugincalderaplugin
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