Brandon Gonzalez
Penetration Tester
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Gonzalez is a penetration tester with eight years of hands-on experience in offensive and defensive security, currently conducting advanced assessments for a classified organization in Washington, D.C. He progressed from exploitation analyst to penetration tester after building a practical foundation integrating SIEM, regex parsing, and log-source engineering at ReliaQuest. A founding member and captain in collegiate red/blue teams, he has repeatedly led teams to top placements in CTFs and national cyber competitions, showing both technical depth and mentorship ability. Comfortable across C, Python, and low-level tooling, he favors pragmatic, performance-conscious solutions and has a knack for turning training environments into repeatable learning artifacts. Colleagues describe him as a doer who learns by building—translating classroom theory into reliable, operational security outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Cybersecurity (BSCyS), Cybersecurity (BSCyS) at University of South FloridaAssociate of Arts - AA, Associate of Arts - AA at State College of Florida-Manatee-Sarasota
Spanish, English
Github Skills (3)
clicker5
javascript1
nodejs1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Minashi/CTF_Writeups
Feb 2022 - Oct 2023
Contributions:6 PRs, 63 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 8 months
Minashi/rpgSimulator
May 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:15 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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