Michael Ortiz
Red Team Engineer - Red Cell, US Department Of State
Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Ortiz is a Red Team Engineer and former Network Solutions Architect with over two decades of hands-on experience building resilient, covert infrastructures for APT-level adversary emulation and large-scale enterprise networks. He currently operates on the Department of State Red Cell and as a Synack researcher, specializing in cloud-hosted C2 platforms, custom implants, and advanced in-memory tradecraft to stress-test detection and response. His background spans strategic C5ISR engineering, theater network modernization, and leading complex deployments in austere environments for defense and coalition partners. Michael blends low-level offensive tooling development in C/C++/C#/PowerShell/Python with deep operational networking expertise (MPLS, VRF, Zero Trust) to both emulate threats and harden target environments. He has a strong academic focus in cybersecurity (master’s and bachelor’s level work) and a veteran’s track record of managing multi-million-dollar programs and cross-functional teams under pressure. Not obvious from his title: he routinely partners with detection engineers to translate red-team findings into telemetry-driven detection logic and response playbooks.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Marine Corps Communications and Electronics SchoolLake Brantley High SchoolEntrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans (EBV), Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations, Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans (EBV), Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations at Institute for Veterans and Military Families - IVMFBachelor of Applied Science - B.A.S, Cybersecurity, 3.84 GPA, Bachelor of Applied Science - B.A.S, Cybersecurity, 3.84 GPA at St. Petersburg CollegeMarine Corp Recruit TrainingMaster's degree, Cybersecurity, 3.934 GPA, Master's degree, Cybersecurity, 3.934 GPA at Saint Leo University
Github Skills (54)
service-level-agreement10
site-reliability-engineering10
incident-response10
reliability10
capacity-planning10
monitoring9
security9
devops9
reliability-engineering9
sre9
scalability9
matching8
rewrite8
pattern7
public-profile7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ortizmj12/vimrc
Aug 2016 - Oct 2020
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
ortizmj12/bsidespdx.org
Sep 2017 - Sep 2019
http://bsidespdx.org
Contributions:5 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years
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