Michael Eaton
Engineering Manager at PortSwigger
Lymm, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMichael Eaton is an Engineering Manager with six years of software development experience and a first-class degree in Software Engineering, now leading squads that build and scale AI-powered features at PortSwigger. He transitioned from hands-on contributor to people-first leader after five years on the Burp Suite engineering team, retaining technical influence through code reviews and infrastructure design while focusing on delivery, hiring, and career coaching. His background spans security tooling, performance engineering, and ML-enabled automation—having helped launch the first wave of AI capabilities and the supporting pipelines and testing in AWS. Michael is especially skilled at bridging product and engineering, translating PM roadmaps into cross-cutting technical delivery while fostering psychological safety and high engineering standards. Colleagues describe him as dependable, pragmatic, and quietly ambitious, with a track record of mentoring junior developers into confident contributors. Based in Lymm, England, he combines practical delivery instincts with curiosity about new technologies and a taste for building things that genuinely improve user workflows.
6 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering BEng (Honours), Software Engineering BEng (Honours) at Sheffield Hallam University
English
Github Skills (29)
extender8
burp8
repeater6
evolution6
enforcement6
jwt5
api5
security5
jython5
java4
application-security4
authorization4
python4
on-the-fly4
decoder4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
PortSwigger/poi-slinger
Nov 2019 - Nov 2019
Automatically identify serialization issues in PHP Frameworks by means of an Burp Suite active scan
Contributions:2 commits, 4 PRs, 2 pushes in 3 days
scanphp-frameworksnetwork-toolsphpserialization
PortSwigger/adhoc-payload-processors
Oct 2019 - Nov 2019
Generate payload processors on the fly - without having to create individual extensions.
Contributions:2 commits, 4 PRs, 2 pushes in 9 days
individualprocessorspayloadon-the-flyextensions
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