Mikey Veenstra
Cybersecurity Team Lead at LightChange Technologies
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
Summary
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SeniorMikey Veenstra is a cybersecurity program lead with a decade of hands-on experience securing web technologies and building repeatable security programs. He progressed rapidly at LightChange Technologies from engineer to program lead, complementing prior roles as a threat analyst, web security researcher, and lead cybersecurity instructor. Mikey combines practical research and tooling improvements with curriculum design and public speaking, making complex risks understandable for both technical teams and learners. Based in Louisville, KY, he champions data privacy, security awareness, and the open source community while favoring pragmatic, auditable solutions over theoretical approaches. An approachable problem solver and technical writer, he often translates offensive research into defensive improvements and training that scale across organizations.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (35)
matching10
pattern10
knife10
yara10
pattern-matching9
base649
locate9
threat-hunting8
threat-intelligence8
php8
ascii8
strings8
javascript7
owncloud6
nextcloud6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
heyitsmikeyv/base64-keystrings
Jul 2017 - Oct 2018
Find key search strings to locate base64-encoded versions of ASCII strings.
Contributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 15 pushes in 1 year 2 months
encodedasciistringsbase64locate
heyitsmikeyv/tools-n-stuff
Nov 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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