Henry Stern
Senior Security Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Nova Scotia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolHenry Stern is a Senior Security Engineer with 12 years of experience specializing in DNS, internet security, and cybercrime, currently securing services at Amazon Web Services from Nova Scotia, Canada. He blends deep research roots—PhD-level computer science training—with hands-on engineering across distributed systems, threat research, and Kubernetes-focused network security. Henry has driven security and threat intelligence work at companies including Tigera, Farsight/DomainTools, Cisco, and SecurityScorecard, bringing experience from incident response to product-facing solutions. He is comfortable translating complex threat data into operational controls and scalable cloud services, having moved between research, solutions architecture, and senior engineering roles. Notably, his career includes leadership in anti-abuse and botnet efforts and contributions to DNS-focused intelligence products that underpin enterprise security decisions.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BCSc, Computer Science, BCSc, Computer Science at Dalhousie University
English, French
Github Skills (137)
devsecops10
cortex10
dns-resolver10
cidr10
security10
iab10
encapsulation10
ipv410
mdns10
orchestrate10
ipv610
recursive10
content-repository10
bind10
ip-address10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dnsdb/dnsdb-query
Feb 2014 - Dec 2016
DNSDB query scripts
Contributions:36 commits, 12 PRs, 9 pushes in 2 years 10 months
querydatabasedns
dnsdb/dnsdb2-python
Nov 2020 - Feb 2022
Farsight DNSDB Version 2 with Flexible Search SDK for Python
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 14 commits in 1 year 3 months
pythonsdkdnsflexible
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