Katie Knowles
Senior Security Researcher at Datadog
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKatie Knowles is a Senior Security Researcher with nine years of hands-on experience defending cloud and enterprise environments, currently researching Azure threats and protection at Datadog. She blends deep offensive skills from penetration testing and bug bounties with blue-team experience in SOC, incident response, and security engineering to create practical detection and mitigation techniques for cloud risk. Certified across offensive and cloud domains (OSCP, GPEN, GCSA, AZ-104, AZ-500) and holding a BS in Electrical Engineering from RIT, she focuses on stopping attackers targeting modern cloud stacks. Known for coaching technical excellence, she also brings a less obvious systems perspective from early roles at SpaceX, which informs her pragmatic, resilience-oriented approach to cloud security.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., B.S. at Rochester Institute of Technology
Github Skills (20)
mitre-attack10
aws-security10
zap10
security10
aws10
azure-security10
kubernetes-security10
cloud-security10
emulation10
vcenter6
active-directory6
active6
pentest5
azuread4
identity4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
siigil/siigil.github.io
Mar 2017 - Feb 2020
Personal website
Contributions:6 PRs, 31 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 10 months
reactnextjs
siigil/python-tools
Jun 2023 - Mar 2024
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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