Michael Born
Senior Manager, DivisionHex at Coalfire
Islands District, Hong Kong, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Born is a Senior Manager and offensive-focused application security leader with a decade of hands-on experience conducting enterprise, web, mobile, API, and cloud (Azure) penetration assessments and leading technical teams at Coalfire. He has authored assessment automation (PowerShell), contributed to CIS Azure Benchmarks, and disclosed multiple CVEs, demonstrating both deep technical skill and real-world impact. Comfortable in adviser and delivery roles, he blends program-level operational maturity improvements with day-to-day technical quality assurance and mentoring. His background spans red-team tooling, Python and assembly development, and systems administration, reflecting a rare combination of low-level exploit know-how and cloud security engineering. Based in Hong Kong with U.S. ties, he aims to grow into leadership roles supporting security consulting, malware research, or federal anti-cyberterrorism efforts.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., B.S. at Bellevue UniversityA.S., A.S. at College of DuPageB.S., B.S. at Northern Illinois University
Github Skills (8)
cookbook8
program-analysis6
foundation5
static-analysis5
security4
owasp3
python1
ais1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
OWASP/www-chapter-omaha
Jan 2020 - Dec 2021
OWASP Foundation Web Respository
Contributions:52 PRs, 56 pushes in 1 year 10 months
web-foundationsecurityowaspfoundationrespository
blu3gl0w13/binaryanalysiscookbook
Nov 2019 - Jan 2025
Contributions:65 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
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