Keith Hoodlet
Director Of Security Research at Octane
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKeith Hoodlet is an advisor and security leader with nine years of experience building DevSecOps programs for Fortune 100s and pioneering Responsible AI bias bounty hunting. He holds OSCP and OSWA certifications and has led applied AI/ML and application security efforts at organizations including GitHub, Trail of Bits, and Thermo Fisher, currently advising Octane and directing security research at 1Password. His dual background in Computer Science and Psychology gives him a rare human-centered perspective on deploying AI safely at scale. A founder of thoughtful developer-first publications (Securing.dev, Thought.dev) and a former host of Application Security Weekly, he blends hands-on offensive security expertise with programmatic, strategic leadership. Notably, he has contributed novel static analysis techniques and led responsible-AI red team assessments on shipping developer tools.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Psychology, Bachelor of Arts - BA Psychology at Keene State CollegeComputer Science, Computer Science at University of New Hampshire
Github Skills (76)
devsecops10
security10
secrets10
golang10
credentials10
secret-management10
verification10
trufflehog10
precommit10
dynamic-analysis10
scanning10
vulnerabilities9
codeql9
heroku9
satellite9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
securingdev/environment
Oct 2016 - Apr 2026
Package files and settings for Bash, Burp, JavaScript, Screen, and VIM
Contributions:1 PR, 42 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 7 months
bashburpjavascriptvim
advanced-security/codeql-queries
Dec 2021 - Jul 2022
[Deprecated] GitHub's Field Team's CodeQL Custom Queries, Suites, and Configurations. See GitHubSecurityLab/CodeQL-Community-Packs instead
Contributions:17 reviews, 19 commits, 35 PRs in 7 months
codeql
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