Austin Pearigen
Software Engineer at StackHawk
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAustin Pearigen is a senior backend software engineer with over 10 years of experience building robust, secure systems across startups and established teams in the Denver area. Currently at StackHawk, he focuses on backend architecture and security-minded engineering, drawing on prior roles at HomeAdvisor and TE2 where he delivered production features and maintained complex systems. His background spans full lifecycle development work—from designing new features and databases to regression testing and production QA—rooted in a Computer Science degree from the University of Central Florida. Austin has hands-on security experience demonstrated by contributions to a purposefully vulnerable Spring Boot project that explored Log4j/Log4shell scenarios, showing an appetite for offensive/defensive security research. He combines pragmatic engineering with an investigative mindset, often reverting and refining implementations to spotlight and remediate real-world vulnerabilities. Colleagues know him as a dependable problem-solver who bridges implementation detail and system-level thinking.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at University of Central Florida
Github Skills (7)
javas10
log4j10
java10
spring-boot10
security10
apidoc9
api9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kaakaww/javaspringvulny
Dec 2021 - Sep 2022
javaspringvulny - a Spring Boot web application built wrong on purpose
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 12 commits, 11 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Austin's contributions focused on addressing a potential security vulnerability related to the Log4j logging library within a Spring Boot web application. They introduced a new endpoint for testing the Log4shell exploit, which involved adding vulnerable logging configurations. Subsequently, they reverted some changes to the security configuration and adjusted the endpoint to expose the vulnerability. The user then updated the request body to use a raw string and removed an unused import.
spring-bootweb-applicationpurposespringspring-boot-web
wapmon/javaspringvulny
Jul 2022 - Mar 2024
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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