Michael Smith
Senior Security Engineer at Robinhood
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Smith is a Senior Security Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience spanning offensive security, application security consultancy, and infrastructure protection at organizations like RBC, Unity Health Toronto, Halborn, Amazon, and Robinhood. He specializes in shifting security left through threat modeling, secure design reviews, SAST/DAST automation, and building "paved road" frameworks and self-service tooling that enable developer-first security. His background includes hardening cloud environments and AWS misconfiguration reviews, architecting PKI and vulnerability management programs in healthcare, and auditing smart contracts on Solana—bringing both traditional and blockchain-focused offensive techniques to bear. Michael pairs technical depth with strong stakeholder influence, consistently translating complex findings into actionable remediation and governance. He’s energized by developing cutting-edge security tools and exploring generative AI/LLM security, reflecting a rare blend of practical red-team skills and forward-looking research interests. Based in Old Toronto, he combines enterprise-scale program leadership with a maker’s curiosity that surfaces in open-source experimentation.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Diploma, Computer Systems Technology - Networking, Advanced Diploma, Computer Systems Technology - Networking at Centennial College
Github Skills (97)
proxy10
security10
methodology10
pentesting10
dynamodb9
language-model9
s3-bucket9
code-generator8
xrdp8
api8
devtools8
javascript8
lambda8
golang8
code-generation8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ThreatUnknown/jsubfinder
Sep 2020 - May 2022
jsubfinder searches webpages for javascript & analyzes them for hidden subdomains and secrets (wip).
Contributions:37 commits, 13 PRs, 51 pushes in 1 year 8 months
javascriptbugbountypentestingsecurity-toolssecurity
ThreatUnknown/hugo-theme-hello-friend-ng
Dec 2021 - Mar 2024
Pretty basic theme for Hugo that covers all of the essentials. All you have to do is start typing!
Contributions:6 PRs, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
to-dohugohugo-themecovers
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