Brandon Myers
Security Engineer at Asymmetric Research
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Myers is a security engineer with 11 years of experience building and hardening back-end systems and detection platforms, currently based in Chicago and working at Asymmetric Research. He spent six years advancing Mozilla’s MozDef SIEM and two years at Google, focusing on reliability, authentication handling, and richer alerting (including geolocation and cloudtrail enhancements). His open-source contributions show a practical emphasis on backend stability and DevOps—adding database connection checks, API heartbeats, improved deployment scripts, and tighter query validation. Trained with an MS in Computer and Information Systems Security from RIT, he blends academic rigor with hands-on vulnerability research and scanner development from earlier roles. Brandon’s work habitually targets the intersection of observability and security, improving testability and error handling to reduce operational risk. Outside work he publishes projects on GitHub (pwnbus), signaling continued curiosity and offensive-minded tooling.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Master of Science - MS, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Rochester Institute of Technology
Github Skills (18)
postgresql10
python10
apidoc10
security10
go10
api10
amazon-elasticsearch9
testing9
aws-elasticsearch9
elasticsearchquery9
elasticsearch-api9
elasticsearch9
docker8
regular-expression8
bash8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
mozilla/MozDef
Jun 2016 - Nov 2021
DEPRECATED - MozDef: Mozilla Enterprise Defense Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:26 releases, 25 reviews, 2220 commits in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Brandon's commits primarily focused on improving the security and functionality of the MozDef platform, specifically enhancing the handling of authentication-related events. They implemented stricter regular expressions within query string match tests, indicating a focus on hardening the system's vulnerability detection capabilities. The user also contributed to adding new features, such as incorporating geolocation data for source IP addresses, and improving the alerts by setting the category to bruteforce and enabling the displaying of the location information. Furthermore, they also worked on supporting various key-fields, such as (responseelements, iaminstanceprofile) for cloudtrail data, and also improved the overall error handling of the plugin.
pythonelksecurityelk-stackelasticsearch
mozilla/mig
Jun 2016 - Nov 2018
Distributed & real time digital forensics at the speed of the cloud
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:13 commits, 4 PRs, 9 pushes in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Brandon contributed to backend functionality, focusing on database interactions and API health checks. They added database connection checks and error handling to improve system stability. They also made improvements to the deployment and integration test scripts, which included waiting for resources and integrating API heartbeat checks. These contributions demonstrate a focus on improving the reliability and testing of the system.
distributedspeedforensicsdigital-forensicsreal-time
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