Alexie McDonald
Lead Application Security Consultant
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolAlexie McDonald is a Lead Application Security Consultant with 9 years of hands-on experience and GIAC certification, specializing in web and API penetration testing, DevSecOps, and secure mobile/web development. At RBC they’ve automated repetitive pentest tasks to reclaim days of effort per quarter, led program modernization initiatives, and mentored teammates while harmonizing security processes across subsidiaries. Comfortable both attacking and engineering defensible systems, Alexie builds tooling (Flask, Python, Celery) to streamline triage, scanning, and reporting workflows and has driven measurable improvements in SAST/DAST efficacy. A former McMaster Software Engineering & Management student and instructor, they combine technical rigor with clear developer-facing education—regularly delivering Q&A sessions and large-scale training to demystify pentesting. Colleagues value Alexie’s mix of offensive depth and pragmatic automation that shifts the team toward higher-value security work.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Software Engineering & Management, 10.3 GPA, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Software Engineering & Management, 10.3 GPA at McMaster UniversityOntario Secondary School Degree, Computer Science, Ontario Secondary School Degree, Computer Science at St.Joan of Arc
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Github contributions (5)
mcdon-a/ManagerApp
May 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:54 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
mcdon-a/InfoApp
May 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:46 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
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