Ivy Oeltjenbruns is a Cyber Security Engineer with eight years of experience, currently focused on adversary emulation and red-team/blue-team collaboration at MITRE. She combines hands-on back-end development with security research, contributing to notable open-source projects like MITRE's Caldera by fixing XSS issues and improving API security and documentation. Ivy holds both a BS and an MS from Dakota State University, grounding her work in formal study and applied research. Known for pragmatic, audit-minded engineering, she bridges threat modeling, tooling, and operational security to make emulation more reliable and reproducible. Colleagues describe her as meticulous about secure APIs and documentation—skills that quietly reduce attack surface across platforms.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at Dakota State University
Contributions:13 reviews, 5 commits, 2 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Ivy contributed to the `mitre/caldera` repository by fixing XSS vulnerabilities, adding documentation, and correcting the `DELETE` response descriptions for the API. These changes focused on improving the security and documentation of the API endpoints, specifically related to fact management. The user's work involved modifications to Python code within the `app/api/v2/handlers/fact_api.py` and `templates/objectives.html` files.
Contributions:4 PRs, 25 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years
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