Matt Burrough
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorMatt Burrough is a Principal Red Team Manager at Microsoft with over a decade of hands-on offensive security and cloud penetration testing experience, and the author of Pentesting Azure Applications. He leads and mentors Red and Purple teams across internal and Federal engagements, presenting technical risks to CISOs and CVPs while shaping company security standards. His background spans deep technical roles—from reverse engineering and custom hardware/software tools to developer work on voice recognition and support platforms—giving him a rare blend of software engineering and applied adversary tradecraft. A locksport enthusiast and co-author on a book about physical security, he brings unconventional physical-attack insight to cloud and enterprise assessments. Based in Seattle, he holds a Master’s in Computer Science and a graduate certificate in Computer Security from UIUC, and is noted for translating complex technical findings into actionable policy and training.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (19)
cybersecurity10
security10
passwords10
cloud-native9
pentesting9
azure7
smartthings5
nfc5
classification5
sniffer4
rfid4
reader4
raspberry-pi4
smartcard3
mifare3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mburrough/pentestingazureapps
Apr 2017 - Jan 2019
Script samples from the book Pentesting Azure Applications (2018, No Starch Press)
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
azurepentestingnostarchpentesting-azure-applicationspentest-scripts
mburrough/locktimer
Feb 2018 - Apr 2025
Contributions:15 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 3 months
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