Summary
Anton Abashkin is a founder and lead application security engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience delivering secure software at scale across enterprises and hypergrowth companies like eBay, Automation Anywhere, and MongoDB. He spans the full secure SDLC鈥攔equirements, threat modeling, secure design, coding review, SAST/DAST, pentesting, and secure release鈥攁nd has driven organization-wide improvements that earned continuous Veracode Verified status. Comfortable diving into design and code, Anton builds custom static analysis rules (notably contributing NoSQL injection rules to semgrep) and designs secure-by-default libraries and tooling. He鈥檚 a proven communicator who presents to engineering and executive audiences, mentors engineers, and embeds security via programs like security champions and training delivered to 1,000+ developers. As founder of AppSec Science he researches NoSQL and low-code/RPA security, publishes PoCs and OWASP guidance, and is now building an attack-surface analysis tool and secure-by-default frameworks. Based in Bozeman, Montana, he seeks remote or local lead application security roles where he can have outsized impact on developer-centered security.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS Information Systems, BS Information Systems at University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business
Master of Science - MS Information Systems Management Concentration: Information Security, Master of Science - MS Information Systems Management Concentration: Information Security at Carnegie Mellon University
Professional Certificate Advanced Computer Security, Professional Certificate Advanced Computer Security at Stanford University
English