Milton Smith
Senior Principal Security Tools Developer at Oracle
Texas, United States
Summary
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SeniorMilton Smith is a Senior Principal Security Tools Developer based in Texas with a 30+ year grounding in building and securing software and over a decade focused on security engineering leadership. At Oracle he designs and implements specialized security automation—authoring projects like OWASP DeepViolet for TLS/SSL analysis, the OWASP Security Logging Project, and JVMXRay for near real-time application access analysis—while seeding and socializing internal and industry initiatives. He blends hands-on coding with architect-level thinking, moving research-grade ideas into production tooling and industry forums. Milton’s background crosses product security, cloud security, and application security roles at major enterprises (Yahoo!, SuccessFactors/SAP, ERCOT), giving him deep context in both developer and operational risk domains. Notably, he pairs long-term institutional knowledge with active open-source contributions that influence how large SaaS platforms approach encryption, logging, and runtime access monitoring.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (24)
ssl10
visible10
spring10
zap10
java10
security10
java-security10
spring-boot10
introspection10
security-scanner9
logback9
log4j9
logging8
owasp8
zaproxy8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
spoofzu/DeepViolet
Aug 2014 - Feb 2022
Tool for introspection of SSL\TLS sessions
Contributions:10 releases, 413 commits, 525 PRs in 7 years 7 months
ssltlsssl-tlsintrospectionjava
spoofzu/jvmxray
Feb 2020 - Jan 2023
Externalize Java application access to protected resources as log messages.
Contributions:4 releases, 105 commits, 55 PRs in 3 years
eventsvisiblesecurityinterestjava-security
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