Ditmar Wendt
Sr. Game Security Engineer at Amazon Games
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolDitmar Wendt is a senior game security engineer based in Redmond with 12 years of experience hunting vulnerabilities, hardening platforms, and protecting customers at scale. He currently leads offensive and defensive security work for Amazon Games, building mitigations and triaging issues that directly impact players. Previously at Microsoft he applied state-of-the-art fuzzing, audited device and firmware attack surfaces, and developed cross-cutting mitigations—often implementing fixes in Rust. His background spans penetration testing, application security, and security tooling from roles at GuidePoint and Raytheon, giving him a strong blend of hands-on research and product-aware remediation. Known for turning deep vulnerability research into practical defenses, he focuses on eliminating entire bug classes rather than just patching instances.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of Central Florida
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Github Skills (200)
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flask10
opencl10
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
HackUCF/skybot
Feb 2014 - Oct 2018
Hack@UCF Fork of Skybot
Contributions:13 commits, 10 PRs, 4 pushes in 4 years 9 months
discorducfbotskybot
HackUCF/hackucf.github.io
Oct 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:13 commits, 13 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year
react
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