Frederick Engstrom
Lead Cybersecurity Engineer at MITRE
Greater Chicago Area United States
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Top SchoolFrederick Engstrom is a Lead Cybersecurity Engineer based in the Greater Chicago Area with six years focused on security engineering and over a decade in test and software roles. At MITRE he drives backend security and adversary emulation work, contributing practical features like agent watchdog timers, encrypted exfiltration, and REST API input sanitization to the well-known MITRE Caldera project. Previously he strengthened detection and response capabilities as a Senior Software Engineer at FireEye and built rigorous test systems at Motorola Mobility, blending product-quality discipline with security-first thinking. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from UIUC and is comfortable moving between low-level test automation and high-level threat simulation. Known for pragmatic, auditable solutions, he brings an engineer’s attention to operational details that reduce real-world risk.
6 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Electrical Engineering, Bachelors Electrical Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (16)
it-security10
backend10
back-end-development10
python10
security10
api-design9
restful-api9
rest-api9
api-rest9
cryptography8
data-structure7
emulation7
data-structures7
cybersecurity7
dockers5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mitre/caldera
Jan 2020 - Mar 2021
Automated Adversary Emulation Platform
Role in this project:
Backend & Security Engineer
Backend & Security EngineerContributions:76 reviews, 43 commits, 45 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Frederick's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the security and functionality of the backend system. They implemented a watchdog timer feature for agents, modified server-side code to manage agent behavior, and introduced encryption for exfilled files. Furthermore, the user worked on input sanitization within the REST API and addressed specific cases to ensure the proper functioning of the application.
security-automationadversarysecurity-testingred-teammitre-attack
center-for-threat-informed-defense/caldera_pathfinder
Apr 2020 - May 2021
Pathfinder is a plugin for mapping network vulnerabilities, scanned by CALDERA or imported by a supported network scanner, and translating those scans into adversaries for network traversal.
Contributions:2 reviews, 62 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year
calderaadversariesnmapvulnerabilitiesthreat-informed-defense
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