Mark Perry
Principal Applied Cybersecurity Engineer at MITRE
McLean, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolMark Perry is a Principal Applied Cybersecurity Engineer at MITRE with six years of progressive experience rising from intern to leadership on the Caldera project. He specializes in securing cloud-native infrastructure and DevSecOps for Operational Technology across medical devices, industrial control systems, and spacecraft technologies. Combining a BASc in Information Security from the University of Hawaii with ongoing master’s work in Cybersecurity Engineering at SANS, he blends academic rigor with hands-on adversary simulation and applied research. Mark’s background as a nursing assistant and active pharmacy license give him rare cross-disciplinary insight into clinical risk and medical device safety that informs his cyber-physical threat modeling. Known for practical, auditable solutions, he advances defensive tooling and operational resilience for high-consequence systems.
6 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Information Technology, Associate's degree, Information Technology at Kapi‘olani Community CollegeMaster's degree, Cyber Security Engineering, Master's degree, Cyber Security Engineering at SANS Technology InstituteBachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at University of Hawaii-West Oahu
Github Skills (20)
mitre-attack10
cybersecurity10
security-automation10
plugin10
security-testing10
emulation10
compile8
vue6
analytics5
filesystem4
cyber-threat-intelligence4
incident-response4
ai3
llm2
opencl2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
deacon-mp/caldera
Feb 2020 - Jul 2026
Automated Adversary Emulation
Contributions:29 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 5 months
adversary-emulationadversaryemulation
sbnsec/caldera
Sep 2025 - Mar 2026
Automated Adversary Emulation Platform
Contributions:3 pushes in 6 months
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