Benjamin Southern
Security Engineer II (Product Security) at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Southern is a Senior Application Security Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience securing web and cloud-native applications, currently focused on strengthening AWS services. He has a strong track record performing manual penetration testing, SAST/DAST automation, and architecting security controls across large financial and retail environments including FINRA, The Home Depot, and Enova. Benjamin pairs developer-facing consulting and education with pragmatic tooling work—building internal reporting, SCA, and CI/CD-integrated security workflows—to drive measurable remediation. Based in Atlanta and grounded in a Computer Science education from Georgia Tech, he bridges incident-level threat analysis and enterprise application design, often surfacing subtle architectural risks before they reach production.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
English
Github Skills (4)
multiplayer4
android3
android-app2
kotlin2
Github contributions (5)
GaurabAryal/Fungeons
Apr 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:91 commits, 40 PRs, 52 pushes in 8 months
gameonline-multiplayerandroidandroid-gamemultiplayer
AntsCrop/androidPack
Jul 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:29 PRs, 61 pushes, 29 branches in 7 months
android-appkotlinandroid
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