Summary
Dong Kim is an Application Security Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience securing modern software and cloud-native workloads from Atlanta, GA. He has practical expertise guiding developers through Veracode findings, automating SAST/DAST/SCA workflows, and reducing friction by building containerized DAST tooling and scan integrations. Comfortable in offensive and defensive roles, Dong teaches reverse engineering and binary exploitation techniques, has presented at multiple DEF CON conferences, and contributes to CTF teams. His background includes deep code reviews, vulnerability validation with Burp Suite, container image triage, and custom fuzzing that uncovered critical crypto-wallet flaws. Actively pursuing advanced certifications (OSCP, CSSLP, GIAC GREM) and with experience translating research into developer training, he blends exploit-level insight with pragmatic secure-development enablement. Beyond tooling, he’s known for turning complex security findings into actionable, pipeline-friendly fixes that accelerate teams to production.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Georgia State University
Korean, Japanese, English, Chinese