Mike Mccabe
Chief Executive Officer at Cloud Security Partners
Reston, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Mccabe is a seasoned cloud and application security leader with 13 years of experience who founded Cloud Security Partners in 2017 to help organizations shift security left and build resilient cloud-native systems. He combines executive leadership with hands-on engineering—his open-source contributions to OWASP RailsGoat and other Rails projects show practical backend security work like password hashing, complexity tests, and content security policies. A former Senior Manager at Capital One and VP/architect roles across security firms, he’s skilled at translating business risk into actionable engineering controls and security programs. Active in the community as OWASP Northern Virginia chapter lead and co-host of the Relating to DevSecOps podcast, he blends practitioner insights with public-facing education. Based in Reston, VA, he holds a BS in IT Security from George Mason and often pairs pragmatic code changes with strategic security initiatives—an approach that surfaces in both consultancy and code.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BS in IT, Information Technology Security, BS in IT, Information Technology Security at George Mason University
Github Skills (15)
security10
rspec10
vulnerabilities10
rails10
password-protection10
passwords10
ruby-on-rails10
ruby10
testing9
unit-test9
minitest9
web-security9
content-security-policy8
sec8
sql8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
OWASP/railsgoat
Sep 2013 - Nov 2017
A vulnerable version of Rails that follows the OWASP Top 10
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:107 commits, 10 PRs, 10 pushes in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily contributed to the back-end development of the Rails application. Their work included adding flash messages and redirects for user validation errors. The user also modified code related to user account settings and added password hashing and complexity tests. Additionally, they added features for messages and implemented the supporting MVC structure.
ruby-on-railsvulnerablerailssecurityvulnerabilities
DARIAEngineering/dcaf_case_management
Jun 2016 - Oct 2016
Rails-based case management system for abortion funds
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 7 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily contributed to backend development tasks, focusing on implementing password complexity validation and security features. They modified user model validations, updated factory and integration test configurations, and added a content security policy. The contributions involved refining password security measures and implementing basic security headers.
ruby-on-railsmanagement-systemrailsrubyabortion
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