James Spadaro
Director Of Offensive Security at Docusign
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Spadaro is a Director of Offensive Security with eight years of focused experience leading red-team style vulnerability evaluations and security research across firmware, cloud, and application stacks. He built and open-sourced the Mutiny fuzzing framework at Cisco and has deep low-level expertise in BIOS/UEFI, BMC, kernel drivers, and embedded C (VxWorks/Linux) alongside higher-level Python/Django and modern JavaScript work. Known for turning hands-on exploit research into actionable product improvements, he has led small evaluation teams, developed security training modules, and accelerated risk assessments for acquisitions. His background includes principal-level cloud security work at Microsoft and long tenure at Cisco, plus early firmware and kernel engineering at Raytheon—an unusual blend that bridges offensive tooling, secure development, and firmware-hardware knowledge. Based in Knoxville, TN, he pairs technical breadth with strong communication and mentoring skills, and holds multiple industry certifications and past Secret clearance.
8 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Northwestern University
Github Skills (41)
reverse-shell10
sarif9
blueteam9
bypass9
linux8
binaries8
unix8
privilege-escalation7
security7
paseto6
collaboration5
react5
saml-authentication5
authentication5
acl5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jspadaro/pioneer_wyt_rs232
May 2023 - Dec 2023
Python script that creates and parses the RS232 protocol used by Pioneer WYT mini splits
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
Cisco-Talos/mutiny-fuzzer
Mar 2018 - Jan 2023
Contributions:10 commits, 5 PRs, 17 pushes in 4 years 11 months
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