Marcus Burghardt
Senior Product Security Engineer at Red Hat
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMarcus Burghardt is a Senior Product Security Engineer based in Berlin with seven years of focused experience in security compliance, hardening, and automation. At Red Hat he progressed from Software Engineer to Senior Product Security Engineer, contributing practical security automation—especially around system hardening tests and Bash/templating work—to widely used projects like ComplianceAsCode. He blends hands-on engineering with teaching and mentorship, co-founding and mentoring at MBSEC while previously serving as a Linux certified instructor and cryptography engineer. Marcus prioritizes ethics, integrity and meritocracy, and is known for pragmatic fixes such as unblocking package protections to enable broader configuration improvements.
7 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Techie Network Security Projects Servers Governance, Techie Network Security Projects Servers Governance at FTEC - Faculdade de Tecnologia de Caxias do Sul
English, German, Spanish, Portuguese
Github Skills (11)
ansible10
testing10
ansible-galaxy10
bash10
security-hardening10
security-automation10
filepermissions9
user-permissions9
auditing9
permission9
audit9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ComplianceAsCode/content
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
Security automation content in SCAP, Bash, Ansible, and other formats
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:1566 reviews, 649 commits, 746 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Marcus primarily focused on security automation within the repository. They added test cases related to file permissions and ownership, particularly for hardening system configurations. Their work involved scripting in Bash and the use of templating tools to create audit rule tests. They also made improvements to the system configuration by removing protected packages in order to allow other changes to be applied.
compliancecpescapsecurity-hardeningnessus
marcusburghardt/shellscript
Feb 2019 - Oct 2024
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
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