Birch Dunford
Application Security Manager
Waynesville, Ohio, United States
Summary
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SeniorBirch Dunford is a seasoned application security leader and former software engineer with over 18 years in IT and more than a decade focused on securing applications and development lifecycles. As Director of Application Security & Cyber Fusion Center at CareSource, he combines hands-on software architecture experience with program-building skills to run threat and vulnerability analysis, static code review, red team exercises, and secure design partnerships with development teams. His background as a developer, architect, manager and creator of CareSource’s Application Security Program gives him a rare ability to translate business requirements into auditable, secure engineering practices. Birch has repeatedly delivered high-visibility web, mobile and integration projects and built reusable frameworks still in production use. He’s known for closing the loop between development and security—creating custom tooling and integrations to embed security earlier in the lifecycle. Based in Waynesville, Ohio, he brings a disciplined, follow-through mentality that turns security strategy into operational reality.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (2)
codeigniter6
mysql6
Github contributions (4)
bdunford/xml
Nov 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:5 commits in 1 month
bdunford/fixtures
Nov 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:6 commits in 2 days
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