Mark Sowell
Lead Penetration Tester
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolMark Sowell is a Lead Penetration Tester and application security consultant with nearly a decade of focused experience and over 20 years in security and systems engineering across ISPs, data centers, and enterprise environments. Based in Denver, he leads offensive security engagements for Check Point across the Americas, combining hands-on exploitation, tooling automation and cloud-native test environments to expose and remediate weaknesses in web, mobile, desktop, API, microservices and serverless apps. He bridges technical delivery and presales, translating complex findings into actionable remediation and executive-facing guidance while mentoring teams to harden development lifecycles. Mark’s background in network and systems engineering gives him a rare full-stack perspective on attack surface reduction, and he frequently deploys bespoke infrastructure (VMware, AWS/Azure, Docker) and scripting (Python, Go, Bash) to replicate realistic threats. A holder of numerous industry certifications (including CEH Master and CCPE variants), he pairs deep technical craft with strategic consulting to help large organizations improve security posture.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics, Mathematics at University of MemphisAerospace/Professional Pilot, Mathematics, Aerospace/Professional Pilot, Mathematics at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU)Professional Aeronautics, Professional Aeronautics at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
English
Github Skills (78)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
marksowell/marksowell
May 2021 - Oct 2024
Contributions:119 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
marksowell/marksowell-archive.github.io
Jul 2020 - Mar 2023
Contributions:164 commits, 16 PRs, 295 pushes in 2 years 8 months
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