Matthew Bass
Senior Product Security Engineer at Discord
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Bass is a Senior Product Security Engineer with 19 years of hands-on software development and security experience, now based in Austin and currently protecting product integrity at Discord. He built and automated critical security workflows at Atlassian—ranging from Bug Bounty operations and large-scale SCA rollouts to an automated Security Advisory pipeline and an external attack surface monitoring rollout. Matthew combines deep engineering skills (backend and serverless) with product-focused security reviews, having led reviews for complex features like Confluence Cloud Public Whiteboards and mentored junior engineers through weekly hands-on workshops. He has a track record of turning manual processes into reliable, observable systems—shipping “metrics as code” and integrating scanning into developer platforms to surface vulnerabilities earlier. Founder of TranscriptMaker, he brings a pragmatic founder’s mindset to security problems, balancing tool-building with operational scaling. He holds a Computer Science degree from UT Austin and excels at bridging developer workflows with measurable security outcomes.
19 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (200)
ruby10
solidus10
epson10
zpl10
paypal10
session-management10
sidekiq10
currency10
spree10
jruby10
apple-pay10
shopping-cart10
rails10
marketplace10
wrapper10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
CandleScience/alchemy-json_api
Jan 2021 - Jan 2025
A JSONAPI compliant API for Alchemy CMS
Contributions:13 pushes, 6 branches in 4 years
cmsapijsonapialchemy-cmscompliant
CandleScience/solidus_reviews
Jun 2017 - Jan 2025
:star: Basic review/rating functionality
Contributions:34 pushes, 16 branches in 7 years 8 months
azerothcoreratingjavascriptreviewsketchup
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