Michael Maass
Senior Manager, Cybersecurity at Exponent
United States
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Top SchoolMichael Maass is a senior cybersecurity leader with over 20 years of hands-on experience and 12 years in senior roles building product and enterprise security programs for safety-critical cyber-physical systems. He has led teams at Motional, Torc Robotics, and Exponent to design and operationalize Security Development Lifecycles (AVCDL/CSMS), secure boot/update/authentication, and vulnerability management, earning positive assessments to standards like ISO/SAE 21434 and UN R155. A former CMU PhD candidate and longtime practitioner, he blends low-level software fluency (x86 assembly, C/C++, Java) with executive-facing risk communication, regulator engagement, and incident response orchestration. He is a repeat inventor and author of influential cybersecurity content (including contributions to ISO/TR 4804 and publicly released SDL material) and has a track record of hiring and scaling high-performing teams. Notably, he has made his AVCDL procedures and trainings publicly available and contributed open-source tooling to automate vulnerability detection in automotive contexts.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering at University of PortlandDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Software Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical Engineering at Washington State University
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Github Skills (74)
webcam-capture10
active-directory10
webcam9
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okta9
camera8
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connected8
gstreamer8
serve8
solver8
ftp-protocol8
filezilla8
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maven-dependency7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
phrack/ShootOFF-legacy
Oct 2013 - Jun 2015
Contributions:1 release, 156 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 7 months
enhancefirelasertraining
phrack/ShootOFF
Mar 2015 - Aug 2021
A virtual shooting range to enhance laser dry fire training.
Contributions:15 releases, 1230 commits, 31 PRs in 6 years 6 months
lasershootingtrainingenhancerange
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