Matt Austin
Principal Red Team Engineer at Match Group
Culver City, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Austin is a Principal Red Team Engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience blending offensive security research and software engineering, now leading red team efforts at Match Group from Culver City. He has run security research labs and led vulnerability discovery and mitigation at Contrast Security—finding and triaging high-impact RCEs across browsers and collaboration platforms—and served as Principal Security Researcher at Pixee. Earlier roles as a senior Ruby developer and application security engineer give him deep full-stack credibility, from building media platforms and encoding pipelines to auditing DOM/HTML5 attack surfaces for DoD-grade assessments. Matt pairs a pragmatic engineering mindset with creative adversary thinking, often prototyping defenses and novel attack methods to harden production systems. He studied Networking and Information Security at Cambridge College and is known for translating obscure research findings into actionable controls for large-scale web applications.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Networking and Information Security, Networking and Information Security at Cambridge College
Github Skills (106)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
matt-/WebGoat
Mar 2024 - May 2024
WebGoat is a deliberately insecure application
Contributions:42 PRs, 47 pushes, 25 branches in 1 month
pixee/pixee-cli
Feb 2024 - May 2024
Implementation of the Pixee CLI
Contributions:1 review, 32 PRs, 78 pushes in 3 months
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