Austin Robertson
Senior Security Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAustin Robertson is a Senior Security Engineer with 15+ years securing hyperscale cloud and enterprise systems, currently driving security for AWS's Databases, Analytics, AI/ML, and Storage portfolios. He combines deep offensive experience from leading red team campaigns and building custom C2 and tunneling tools with pragmatic defensive engineering—embedding fuzzing, agentic AI testing, and CI-integrated automation to find once and fix everywhere. His work spans threat modeling for LLMs and inference containers to IAM chained-risk analysis and anomaly detection for enterprise SSO, with repeated delivery of executive risk briefings and cross-team remediation. An active contributor to networking and tunneling open source (notably enhancing chisel with SOCKS5 reverse forwarding) he pairs low-level systems know-how with cloud-scale security architecture. Previously he matured Fidelity’s Red Team program and earlier career roots in mainframe systems programming give him a rare blend of legacy systems rigor and modern cloud offensive-defensive craft.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration, Bachelor of Business Administration at Harding University
Github Skills (19)
socks10
tunnel10
reverse-proxy10
scripting10
bash10
networking10
script10
go10
tunneling10
tcp10
golang10
sh10
pfsense10
shell10
freebsd9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
MonkWho/pfatt
Sep 2018 - Aug 2019
Enable true bridge mode for AT&T U-Verse and pfSense (this is a fork of an original repository https://github.com/aus/pfatt. Since it is not available anymore, I'll do my best to maintain a copy for people that still need a bypass)
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:48 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Austin primarily focused on configuring and maintaining a script related to network configuration for pfSense, specifically for bypassing limitations with AT&T U-Verse. Their contributions involved adding and removing network hooks, configuring interfaces, and enabling promiscuous mode. They also added a workaround script for a specific hardware model and included support for OPNSENSE. Additionally, the user added logging, improved code formatting, and incorporated a compiled kernel module for networking.
pfsense
jpillora/chisel
Feb 2019 - Oct 2019
A fast TCP/UDP tunnel over HTTP
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 4 PRs, 26 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Austin primarily contributed to implementing features related to client-side SOCKS5 proxy support and reverse port forwarding within the `chisel` project. They added functionality to enable a client-outbound SOCKS5 server and refactored the code to support the "R:socks" syntax for reverse proxies, allowing connections to be terminated at the client's internal SOCKS5 proxy. These changes involved modifications to both the client and server codebases, enhancing the tunnel's capabilities. They also made adjustments to the server to log the real IP of the client.
tcpudptunnelgolang
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