Caroline Russell
Staff Security Engineer at AppThreat
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolCaroline Russell is a Staff Security Engineer based in Durham, NC, with three years in security-focused roles and a background in system administration dating back to managing production servers and 100+ endpoints. She leverages a B.S. in Information Technology and practical skills in Python, PHP, C#, PowerShell, MySQL, and SQL to maintain and evolve AppThreat tools and contribute to OWASP projects like dep-scan and cdxgen. Her experience implementing customer solutions at Square 9 sharpened her ability to translate business needs into secure, auditable technical workflows. Comfortable across stacks from databases to scripting and tooling, she combines hands-on coding with practical operational security. Notably, she blends long-term infrastructure experience with modern application security work, enabling pragmatic vulnerability detection and remediation.
3 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Information Technology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Information Technology at University of North Carolina Wilmington
Github Skills (144)
end-to-end-encryption10
devsecops10
dependency-analysis10
vulnerability-scanners10
sbom10
circleci10
security10
dependency-track10
malware10
ci-cd-pipeline10
azure-pipelines10
encryption10
cyclonedx10
secrets10
owasp10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
AppThreat/custom-json-diff
May 2024 - Dec 2024
A utility to compare json documents containing dynamically-generated fields.
Contributions:32 releases, 10 reviews, 73 PRs in 7 months
AppThreat/atom-tools
Dec 2023 - Jan 2025
Collection of tools for use with AppThreat/atom.
Contributions:17 releases, 7 reviews, 61 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.