Mike Stepanek
Technical Leader at Cisco
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Stepanek is a technical leader with 10+ years of experience building high-assurance systems across cybersecurity, autonomy, and defense domains. He has led architecture and delivery at Cisco (Snort/Snort++) and Forterra, blending hands-on C++/Python development, CUDA-powered DNN pipelines, and systems integration with people leadership and mentoring. A proven contributor to the open-source Snort++ project, he implemented robust JavaScript normalization and parsing improvements used in intrusion prevention workflows. His background spans embedded and ASIC work through radar and vehicle autonomy, giving him a rare combination of low-level systems and high-level security expertise. Based in the Washington DC–Baltimore area, he brings pragmatic engineering judgment and a track record of shipping production-critical features under tight constraints.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Computer Engineering, Master of Science (MS), Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech
Github Skills (12)
regular-expression10
javascript10
c-language10
lexical-analysis10
cprogramming-language10
network-security9
packet-analysis9
html8
computer-engineering8
data-structure7
data-structures7
algorithms7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
snort3/snort3
Mar 2018 - Jun 2022
Snort++
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 521 commits, 3 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Mike contributed significantly to JavaScript normalization within the Snort++ project. Their work involved implementing single-pass processing, handling protocol data units (PDUs) for both inline and external JavaScript, and addressing potential issues with data loss and incorrect tracking. They also made enhancements to improve the handling of JavaScript code, particularly regarding the tracking of JavaScript unescape-like functions, and added object properties to be ignored, demonstrating expertise in parsing and code analysis. Additionally, they added features to handle binary, octal, and big integers to Javascript normalization.
cppsnort
mjs717/coursera01
May 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:11 pushes, 2 branches in 28 days
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