Braden Hollembaek
Security Engineer at Apple
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBraden Hollembaek is a Security Engineer in Seattle with 11 years of experience designing and operating trustworthy platform and infrastructure security for large-scale environments. He has led production infrastructure security at Dropbox and now secures systems at Apple, bringing deep hands-on expertise in cloud and private datacenter security, threat assessment, and automated vulnerability discovery. His background spans consulting and research—at NCC Group and the University of Oregon—where he performed kernel-level research, developed fuzzing and static/dynamic analysis tools, and presented findings at security conferences. Comfortable moving between offensive testing and defensive engineering, he builds internal tools that scale security practices across teams and production services. Notably, his career blends academic research on protocols like TLS with practical deployment security, giving him a rare perspective on both protocol-level weaknesses and operational mitigations.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at University of OregonLane Community College
Github Skills (32)
ioctl9
shadow8
kotlin-multiplatform7
credentials7
hardening6
kotlin6
permission6
fuzzer5
auditing5
pentesting5
android5
aws5
anaconda5
python-client5
security5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bhollemb/slides
Oct 2016 - Aug 2021
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
bhollemb/DIBF
Oct 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:25 pushes, 2 branches, 6 issues in 8 months
security-toolssecurityfuzzingioctlfuzzer
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