Morgan Backus
Senior Offensive Security Engineer at Gong
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMorgan Backus is a Senior Offensive Security Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience in penetration testing, red teaming, and cloud/application security, currently leading offensive efforts at Gong. Their research has driven numerous public CVE disclosures across diverse platforms (including multiple RCEs and privilege escalations) and they’ve contributed training scenarios to CloudGoat, showing a blend of practical exploitation and developer-focused education. Previously a Red Team Lead at Williams-Sonoma and a multi-year tester at Rhino Security Labs, Morgan combines enterprise engagement experience with consulting work for a Fortune 500 aerospace client on Azure threat modeling and secure deployment. Holding a B.S. in Computer Science and certifications such as OSCP and CISSP, they focus on pushing offensive boundaries while producing reproducible research that helps defenders close real-world gaps.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Central Washington UniversityLakeside School
Github Skills (11)
penetration-testing10
aws10
security10
aws-security9
jsonwebtoken9
python9
testing9
amazon-web-services9
cracking8
botocore2
pentesting1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
j0eblow/cloudgoat
Apr 2023 - Jan 2025
CloudGoat is Rhino Security Labs' "Vulnerable by Design" AWS deployment tool
Contributions:8 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 9 months
awssecurity
MTBackus/Calculator
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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