Mike Salvatore
Corporate Faculty
South Annville Township, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolMike Salvatore is a cybersecurity-focused software engineer and educator with a decade of experience building secure, production-grade systems across networking and enterprise environments. He has led architecture and development for the open-source Infection Monkey platform at Guardicore/Akamai, blending backend engineering, vulnerability research, and product vision to harden adversary emulation tooling. His background spans kernel- and user-space security (AppArmor), Linux systems administration, C++ and Go development, and embedded/networking work dating back to AUV research and Arduino projects. A Johns Hopkins M.S. in Cybersecurity complements a track record of discovering and patching vulnerabilities, implementing agile SDLC practices, and teaching cybersecurity topics at the university level. Based in Pennsylvania, he combines hands-on coding with security leadership and a knack for turning research insights into practical defensive tools.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Program, Computer Science Program at Freehold High SchoolB.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers University School of EngineeringMaster of Science (M.S.) Cybersecurity, Master of Science (M.S.) Cybersecurity at Johns Hopkins Engineering for Professionals
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (13)
security10
it-security10
api10
python10
apidoc10
testing10
pytest9
network-security9
refactoring8
refactor8
pyinstaller6
multiprocessing6
amazon-linux6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
guardicore/monkey
Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
Infection Monkey - An open-source adversary emulation platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:4 releases, 3416 reviews, 3762 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Mike primarily contributed to the Infection Monkey security platform, focusing on implementing new features and addressing vulnerabilities. Their work included fixing type hints, adding tests for unauthenticated API access, merging security patches, and improving the logging behavior. The user's contributions demonstrate expertise in both the backend functionality of the platform and the associated security implications.
security-automationsecurity-toolspythonbugbountysecurity
guardicode/agent-plugin-builder
Jun 2024 - Jan 2025
Contributions:53 reviews, 6 PRs, 20 pushes in 7 months
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