Summary
Austin Siford is a product security senior with over a decade of hands-on experience blending offensive security, incident response, and secure software development for large-scale e-commerce platforms. At Salesforce he leads threat modeling, code and design reviews, pen testing, and global incident response for Commerce Cloud while building tooling to proactively detect abuse and boost team productivity. He runs a long-standing security consultancy (AB Security) delivering penetration testing, intelligence-driven investigations, and bespoke software to clients across commercial and government sectors. Known for partnering with product, engineering, and sales teams, he also supports law enforcement investigations and public-facing programs like bug bounties and security champions. Based in the DC–Baltimore area, he combines operator-level tradecraft with executive advising and a history of open-source tooling that surfaces real-world attacker behavior.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
West Virginia University
James Rumsey Technical Institute
English, Spanish