Brad Palm
Chief Executive Officer at Pathfynder
Bozeman, Montana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrad Palm is a cybersecurity and operations leader with eight years of industry experience and a background in military systems and engineering. As COO of Dreadnode and former VP of Services & Technology at Pathfynder, he specializes in offensive security, resilient architecture, and assessing IT risk when adopting new technologies. His career blends hands-on consulting (founder of BruteForce), academic teaching in cyber intelligence, and technical leadership roles informed by an M.S. in Computer Science from the Naval Postgraduate School. A former Marine Corps officer who led network analysis and engineering teams, he brings disciplined project management and a mission-focused approach to fast-paced, high-performing organizations. Based in Bozeman, MT, Brad combines practical offensive security expertise with a knack for bridging physical and virtual systems—often pressure-testing designs to harden them before deployment.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Next Step: Transition to Business, Next Step: Transition to Business at The Tuck School of Business at DartmouthMasters of Computer Science, Masters of Computer Science at Naval Postgraduate SchoolBachelor of Science (BS) Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Mechanical Engineering at University of St. Thomas
Github Skills (34)
tactics9
cybersecurity9
cyber-threat-intelligence9
pentesting8
discovery8
security8
mitre-attack7
keyboard7
tiddlywiki7
mouse7
scanning7
e-mail6
network6
threat-intelligence6
blueteam6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
beerMT/dockerfiles
May 2021 - Feb 2023
Contributions:72 commits, 64 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
beerMT/jupyterLab
Nov 2019 - Sep 2021
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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