Nathan Coats
Senior Penetration Tester
Chesapeake, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNathan Coats is a Senior Penetration Tester with 11 years of cybersecurity experience, currently driving offensive security engagements out of Chesapeake, Virginia. He has progressed from hands-on analyst roles into leadership positions—Director of Offensive Security and Director of Cybersecurity Special Ops & Incident Response—demonstrating both technical depth and team-building skills. Nathan holds a master’s in Cybersecurity and Information Assurance and a computer science bachelor’s, blending formal education with practical web development roots. He’s experienced in incident response, red teaming, and penetration testing across government and enterprise contexts, and is known for a relentless appetite for learning and skill refinement. Colleagues describe him as a problem-solver who enjoys working hard to enable and protect others, bringing a pragmatic, educator’s mindset from his adjunct teaching stint to mentoring technical teams.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Southern Utah UniversityMaster's degree Cyber Security and Information Assurance, Master's degree Cyber Security and Information Assurance at Western Governors UniversityWeb Development Web Development, Web Development Web Development at Deep Dive Coders
English, Spanish
Github Skills (8)
plug-and-play9
plug8
inotify8
taiga8
logging7
server6
docker5
fail2ban4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
guardsight/gsvsoc_docker-system-of-record
May 2020 - Jul 2021
A dockerized log server, that has plug and play capabilities.
Contributions:47 commits, 4 PRs, 33 pushes in 1 year 1 month
inotifydockerloggingplug-and-playlog-server
NathanCoats/GoCoin
Dec 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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