Julian Berton
Security Engineer at Hidden
Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJulian Berton is a seasoned Security Engineer with 11 years' experience, currently protecting autonomous ride‑sharing systems as a Staff Security Engineer in Queensland, Australia. He has deep expertise across incident response, application security and threat detection for both cloud and embedded vehicle environments, having built alerts for Linux hosts, local vehicle networks, message signing and CAN bus anomalies. Julian combines hands‑on engineering—reviewing PRs, tuning detections and running on‑call incident command—with program‑level work such as threat modeling, security standards and developer-facing tooling. He’s an active community contributor and educator: founder of OWASP AppSec Day, past OWASP Melbourne chapter lead and a frequent conference speaker at events like DevSecCon, OWASP Melbourne and NDC Sydney. Notably, his background spans both offensive testing and defensive operations, giving him a pragmatic perspective on how detections perform under red‑team pressure.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
The Geelong CollegeThe University of Melbourne
English, Italian
Github Skills (67)
web-application10
security10
javascript10
owasp10
vulnerabilities10
application-security10
pentesting10
ctf10
hacking10
secure-coding10
django9
base589
xpub9
semgrep9
to-do9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
bertonjulian/juice-shop
Aug 2017 - Feb 2021
OWASP Juice Shop is an intentionally insecure webapp for security trainings written entirely in Javascript which encompasses the entire OWASP Top Ten and other severe security flaws.
Contributions:2 PRs, 38 pushes, 39 branches in 3 years 7 months
owasp-topmethodologyshoptrainingsten
seek-oss/listo
Feb 2020 - Jul 2020
Listo. Use questionnaires and checklists to make it easy to do the right thing, regarding the software you build.
Contributions:70 commits, 35 PRs, 58 pushes in 5 months
questionnairesto-dochecklists
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