Chris Gates
Manager, Red Team at The Sky Beckons
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Gates is a veteran offensive security leader with 14+ years building and managing Red Team, penetration testing, and adversarial simulation programs for organizations from startups to large tech firms and the DoD. Currently Manager of Red Team at The Walt Disney Company and a BlackHat training reviewer, he blends hands-on exploit development and AWS attack automation with people-first management—leading with vulnerability and an open heart. He co-founded NoVA Hackers, helped stand up offensive programs at BitMEX and Robinhood, and contributes open-source tooling such as S3 automation modules in the WeirdAAL AWS Attack Library. A West Point computer science graduate and multi-certified practitioner (CISSP, GPEN, GXPN, etc.), Chris is equally comfortable briefing executives on risk as he is live-demoing complex attack chains. Unusually for someone in infosec, he also pursues mindfulness and energy-healing practices, bringing a holistic approach to team resilience and leadership.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Connecting with Spirit Connecting for the Message The Connecting Workout, Connecting with Spirit Connecting for the Message The Connecting Workout at Joyful SpiritIntuitive Counseling, Intuitive Counseling at Joyful Spirit BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at United States Military Academy at West PointDharma Coach, Dharma Coach at Dharma Coaching Institute (DCI)Reiki Master, Reiki Master at Lotus Wellness Center
Github Skills (7)
aws-s310
boto10
python10
scripting9
aws9
automation9
automations9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
carnal0wnage/weirdAAL
May 2017 - Sep 2020
WeirdAAL (AWS Attack Library)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:236 commits, 4 PRs, 33 pushes in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the development of the `s3.py` module, which appears to contain functions for interacting with AWS S3 buckets. Their work involved implementing functions for retrieving bucket policies, listing contents, and getting object ACLs. The user also created testing scripts and scripts to list buckets from a file, indicating a focus on automating S3-related tasks and ensuring proper functionality.
securitypentest-toolpython3awsattack
carnal0wnage/pentesty_scripts
Jun 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:34 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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