Matthew Coles
Technical Staff at Dell Technologies
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Coles is a seasoned product and application security technologist with 7+ years in senior security roles and over two decades of hands-on software engineering experience. Currently a Technical Staff member at Dell Technologies and previously a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, he specializes in building security programs that integrate secure development lifecycle practices into complex product portfolios. His background spans embedded and IoT/IIoT systems, firmware integrity, code hardening, and standards-driven security governance from roles at EMC, Analog Devices, Bose, and Dell. Matthew has blended individual contributor depth with leadership—authoring policies, reference implementations, and industry engagement (ISO, CVSS, CWE-related groups) to make security practical and auditable. He also brings academic experience teaching software security at the graduate level, reflecting a talent for translating deep technical topics into actionable guidance. Based in Greater Boston, he pairs pragmatic engineering with strategic security stewardship across hardware and software stacks.
7 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Framingham State UniversityMasters Computer Science, Masters Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (9)
sequence-diagram10
diagram10
data-flow-diagram10
dataflow10
dfd10
pythonic10
modeling10
threat-modeling10
python9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
OWASP/pytm
Jul 2018 - Jul 2022
A Pythonic framework for threat modeling
Contributions:16 reviews, 2 commits, 3 PRs in 4 years
threat-modelingsequence-diagramdata-flow-diagrampythondfd
OWASP-Foundation/Board-Election-Call-for-Questions
Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:1 comment in 1 day
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