Summary
Enrique Montellano is an Offensive Security Engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience conducting red team operations, hardware and firmware forensics, and advanced exploit development across small, enterprise and transnational environments. Based in Seattle, he has led SOC buildouts and security operations for Whole Foods Market and designed forensic automation and hardware security processes for Amazon’s physical stores. His background spans RF and Bluetooth protocol reversal, embedded systems exploitation, reliable exploit writing, and mentoring engineers in reverse engineering and red-team tradecraft. Prior roles include senior reverse engineering at Department 13 and leading red-team and hunting programs for critical infrastructure at PG&E, where he also developed automated wireless testing frameworks for nuclear facilities. Known among peers for combining deep low-level technical capability with operational leadership, he runs practical, high-success proof-of-concept exploit work under tight deadlines. Off-hours he styles himself “a cat that hacks,” reflecting a playful curiosity that fuels persistent research into novel attack vectors.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Eng, Engineering, Eng, Engineering at Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
English, Spanish