Brandon Coates
Sr. Security Engineer - Vulnerability Management Strategy
Ashburn, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Coates is a Field Security Engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience designing and hardening cloud environments for enterprise and consumer platforms, most recently supporting customers at Atlan after multi-year roles at AWS, TikTok, and Yahoo. A CISSP and AWS-certified practitioner, he specializes in cradle-to-grave cloud security—leading migrations, automation of vulnerability detection/remediation, and operational incident response across large-scale AWS deployments. He has a proven record of building programmatic security tooling and running responsible disclosure programs that bridge security research and engineering teams. Based in Ashburn, VA, Brandon combines deep academic training (MS in Computer Science) with practical consulting experience, uniquely comfortable both in customer-facing advisory roles and in low-level technical implementation.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at The George Washington UniversityBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Howard University
Github Skills (22)
sendgrid9
transactional-emails9
swift8
server-side-swift8
linux8
twilio8
security7
python7
cli7
falco7
macos7
gitignore6
cloud-native5
elasticsearch5
aws5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lab2112/lilly
May 2014 - Jun 2014
Contributions:30 commits in 1 month
soopanova/lab2112.github.io
Jan 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:13 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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