Carter Brainerd
Security Engineer at Sourcegraph
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCarter Brainerd is a security engineer with nine years of experience specializing in identity, distributed systems, infrastructure, and application security, currently based in Washington, D.C. He has held hands-on roles at SpaceX and Poloniex and now works at Sourcegraph, combining cloud-native engineering with operational security. His background includes building authentication for CAC-enabled military systems, migrating custody APIs to serverless architectures, and creating monitoring and permission-auditing tools across OneLogin, Cloudflare, and 1Password. An active open-source contributor, he has authored Metasploit auxiliary modules for network security auditing, reflecting deep practical experience in offensive tooling and research. Colleagues rely on him to bridge secure design and pragmatic implementation across large, distributed systems.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Systems, Computer Science Systems at Northeastern UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Landon School
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
penetration-testing10
meta10
ruby10
network-security10
meta-framework10
metasploit10
audit9
code-auditing9
audit-logging9
exploit9
audit-trail9
auditing9
html6
macos6
swift-playgrounds6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
rapid7/metasploit-framework
Dec 2016 - Jun 2019
Metasploit Framework
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 165 commits, 38 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Carter primarily contributed to the Metasploit Framework, focusing on the development of auxiliary modules. Their work involved creating new modules, such as the NETGEAR Administrator Password Disclosure module and the NETGEAR DGN2200 dnslookup command injection module, designed for network security auditing and penetration testing. Additional changes include updates to existing modules to address warnings. These changes showcase a dedication to security research, module development and framework maintenance.
metasploit
cbrnrd/rise
Sep 2017 - Aug 2020
🌩️ Simple serverless deployment
Contributions:3 releases, 151 commits, 10 PRs in 2 years 11 months
serverlessrubysinatraapirise
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