Benjamin Koffel
Senior Security Engineer at Google
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolBenjamin Koffel is a Senior Security Engineer in Melbourne with a decade of experience securing large-scale cloud and product environments, currently protecting enterprise infrastructure at Google. His background spans AppSec, incident response, vulnerability management and security automation at AWS and SEEK, backed by earlier hands-on roles building microservices and betting systems on AWS. Benjamin blends deep technical incident response skills with practical application security engineering and infrastructure automation, often translating complex findings into scalable mitigation and detection. Notably, he progressed from developer and team lead roles into senior security positions, giving him a rare combination of secure-by-design intuition and operational response expertise.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's Degree, Information Technology at The University of Queensland
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Github Skills (18)
data-export9
css-modules9
vanilla-extract8
reverse-engineering8
eslint8
front-end-development8
webpack8
mitre-attack8
vite7
react7
ghidra4
data-acquisition4
sre4
decorators3
amazon-linux2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
benjaminkoffel/service-auth
Dec 2017 - Feb 2026
Example of authentication using client signed JWTs.
Contributions:46 PRs, 72 pushes, 71 branches in 8 years 2 months
jwtsauthenticationsignedjwt-authenticationjwt
benjaminkoffel/acquired
Dec 2018 - Jan 2019
Proof of concept for simple forensic data acquisition for AWS.
Contributions:47 commits, 4 PRs, 32 pushes in 25 days
awsdata-acquisition
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