Benjamin V
Senior Principal Consultant - Maritime, Energy & Government Cybersecurity at ABS Group
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin V is a Senior Principal Consultant specializing in maritime, energy, and government cybersecurity with over 18 years of experience designing and securing distributed, high-consequence systems. He blends deep hands-on engineering—Go, Python, Kubernetes, Terraform, and distributed edge computing—with program-level advisory work across CMMC, SOC 2, PCI DSS and OT/ICS regimes to turn regulatory obligations into practical, auditable controls. Benjamin has repeatedly delivered measurable outcomes: large-scale vulnerability automation, dramatic incident response acceleration, and a Protective DNS product that reduced DNS threats by over 60%. He’s equally at home building RASP/IAST agents, deep packet inspection for ICS, and scalable security automation pipelines that integrate across cloud and enterprise tooling. An award-winning implementer and conference educator, he also runs security-focused products and events (including a GopherCon CTF series) that train hundreds of engineers annually. Based in Raleigh, NC, he combines entrepreneurial grit with technical leadership to solve complex, safety-critical cybersecurity challenges.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Illinois SpringfieldStanford Advanced Computer Security Certificate, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Stanford Advanced Computer Security Certificate, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Stanford University
French
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Github Skills (138)
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tailscale10
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code-review10
golang10
generic-types10
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typescript10
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
devnw/validator
Feb 2019 - May 2022
Flexible, fast validation library for Go. Handles both boolean validation as well as error returns (assertion) for expanded validation information.
Contributions:1 release, 92 commits, 26 PRs in 3 years 3 months
go
benjivesterby/env
Mar 2020 - Jun 2024
Contributions:232 pushes, 3 branches, 1 comment in 4 years 3 months
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