Mark Clayton
Extended Expertise Consultant - Cortex Cloud at Palo Alto Networks
Frisco, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Clayton is a cybersecurity and engineering leader with 11 years of hands-on experience spanning red team operations, detection engineering, DevSecOps, and full-stack/mobile development. He has led teams and built automation and detection pipelines at Palo Alto Networks and Gusto, co-founded and single-handedly shipped core mobile, web, and backend infrastructure at a decentralized communications startup, and modernized testing and DevOps practices in enterprise engagements. Comfortable from attack to response, he blends offensive insight with secure-by-design cloud-native architecture (AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform) and CI/CD security automation. His background in both deep pentesting and product engineering means he routinely translates complex security findings into production-ready fixes and automation. Outside of day jobs he contributes to the security community through talks and publications, and brings a pragmatist’s approach—favoring reproducible, auditable automation over ad-hoc tooling.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) Management Information Systems General, Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) Management Information Systems General at Auburn University at Montgomery
Github Skills (43)
git10
penetration-testing10
github10
testing10
hacking10
security10
application-security10
owasp10
methodology10
pentesting10
web-security10
patch9
security-testing9
subversion8
livecd7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
markclayton/test-project
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
Contributions:28 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
markclayton/bumpster
Feb 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:14 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 24 days
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