Manuel Sommer
Cyber Security Engineer at beyonnex.io
Bad Windsheim, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolManuel Sommer is a Cyber Security Engineer based in Bad Windsheim, Germany with five years of hands-on experience securing product and platform software. He has progressed from software quality assurance to IT and product security leadership at TRADEBYTE and now focuses on security engineering at beyonnex.io. An active contributor to the well-known DefectDojo project, Manuel has improved API design, hardened security logic, and added integrations like RustyHog to streamline vulnerability report parsing. He blends backend development skills with practical vulnerability management experience, helping teams turn complex security requirements into automated, auditable solutions. Notably, his background in QA informs a detail-oriented approach to deduplication, settings refactoring, and eliminating subtle security flaws.
5 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Master of Science - MS at The Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg
Github Skills (15)
api10
python10
apidoc10
django10
security10
security-automation9
devsecops9
vulnerability-management9
automations8
automation8
jsonp8
json8
json-parser8
parsing8
unit-test7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
DefectDojo/django-DefectDojo
Jan 2021 - Nov 2022
Open-Source Unified Vulnerability Management, DevSecOps & ASPM
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:249 reviews, 19 commits, 556 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Manuel contributed to various aspects of the Django-based application, focusing on system settings, API enhancements, and security improvements. Their work included refactoring system settings through API version 2, fixing potential security vulnerabilities like duplicate conditional statements, and removing unnecessary security headers. The user also implemented new features, such as the RustyHog integration to parse different vulnerability reports. Furthermore, they contributed to the deduplication algorithm and other functionalities to improve the security posture of the application.
devsecopsvulnerability-managementpythonvulnerability-databasesdjango
manuel-sommer/dependencytrack-pywrap
Nov 2021 - Jul 2026
This is a python wrapper for the dependency track REST API.
Contributions:18 reviews, 17 PRs, 61 pushes in 4 years 8 months
dependency-trackpythonrestrest-apidependencytrack
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