Cassandra Diaz
Principal Software Engineer at BAE Systems
Sterling, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCassandra Diaz is a Principal Software Engineer with six years of hands-on experience building reliable, constraint-aware systems for cybersecurity and enterprise clients. She progressed through multiple applied cybersecurity roles at MITRE—where she automated security reviews and designed a database/automation that sped network traffic capture accuracy by 30%—and now drives engineering at BAE Systems. Comfortable both as a solo contributor and collaborative team member, she brings a strategic, defensive-coding mindset and experience integrating software with hardware, runtimes, and memory-limited environments. An active contributor to open-source security tooling, she implemented an FTP contact method for the well-known MITRE Caldera adversary emulation platform, demonstrating practical experience with asynchronous servers and secure agent communication. Based in Sterling, VA, she pairs product-focused cross-functional work with a proven ability to turn compliance and testing requirements into automated, repeatable solutions.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of Texas at San Antonio
Github Skills (12)
asynchronous10
cybersecurity10
ftp10
python10
async10
security-automation9
emulation9
json8
restful-api7
api-design7
api-rest7
rest-api7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mitre/caldera
Aug 2021 - Aug 2021
Automated Adversary Emulation Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 29 commits, 1 PR in 16 days
Contributions summary:Cassandra primarily focused on implementing an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) contact method for the Caldera platform, as evidenced by multiple commits modifying `contact_ftp.py`. The commits demonstrate the creation of an FTP server using `aioftp`, handling file uploads and downloads, and integrating it with the existing agent communication framework. The user's work included setting up user authentication, defining file handling logic, and incorporating it with the platform's security features.
security-automationadversarysecurity-testingred-teammitre-attack
lostedmemarbles/CompArchFinal
Mar 2020 - Apr 2020
Contributions:16 commits, 16 pushes in 29 days
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