Michael Pirnat

Noblesville, Indiana, United States

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Michael Pirnat is a seasoned development and philanthropic professional with 15 years of experience in fundraising, planned giving, and financial services, now based in Noblesville, Indiana. He has a long track record helping donors and clients structure gifts, estate plans, and insurance solutions across nonprofit and financial institutions, including leadership roles at The American Legion and Catholic philanthropic organizations. Comfortable bridging technical and human domains, he has also contributed as a full-stack developer to an educational Django project that intentionally teaches OWASP Top 10 web vulnerabilities. Michael combines practical sales and relationship skills from roles at New York Life and Morgan Stanley with deep nonprofit fundraising expertise, and his background in Russian and psychology adds an analytical, cross-cultural dimension to his work. Known for clear communication and ethical stewardship, he brings steadiness and a teacher’s mindset to complex donor and client conversations.

15 years of coding experience

21 years of employment as a software developer

Certificate, Fundraising Management, Certificate, Fundraising Management at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis

B.S., Psychology; Russian Minor, 3.4 out of a possible 4.0, B.S., Psychology; Russian Minor, 3.4 out of a possible 4.0 at Indiana University Bloomington

Certificate, Intensive Russian, Certificate, Intensive Russian at Syracuse University

Certificate, Financial Planning, Certificate, Financial Planning at New York Institute of Finance

none, Pharmacy, none, Pharmacy at Butler University

Diploma, College Prep, Diploma, College Prep at Reitz Memorial High School

German, Russian

Github Skills (7)

web-security10

python10

django10

xss9

html9

csrf9

css7

Programming languages (4)

AstroJavaScriptHTMLPython

Github contributions (5)

mpirnat/lets-be-bad-guys

Jan 2013 - Jul 2017

A deliberately-vulnerable website and exercises for teaching about the OWASP Top 10

Role in this project:

Full-stack Developer

Contributions:87 commits, 3 PRs, 26 pushes in 4 years 7 months

Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to a Django-based web application designed for teaching about the OWASP Top 10. Their work included the initial setup of a Django project, adding exercises related to common web vulnerabilities like XSS, CSRF, and unvalidated redirects, and implementing navigation elements. The user demonstrated proficiency in Django templating and routing, creating the structure for various security exercises within the application.

vulnerableteachingsecurityowasp-topowasp

mpirnat/django-tutorial

Oct 2013 - Dec 2014

Tutorial presented by Mike Pirnat and David Stanek at CodeMash 2014 about web development with Python and Django

Contributions:33 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 2 months

pythondjango-frameworkdjango-rest-frameworkdjangodjango-blog

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