Nathaniel Beckstead
Security Engineer
Rochester, New York United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNathaniel Beckstead is a Security Engineer based in Rochester, NY with over a decade of hands-on experience defending systems and building tooling to counter attackers. Trained in Computing Security at RIT, he blends practical offensive and defensive techniques to harden infrastructure and automate incident response. He actively publishes security projects on GitHub (becksteadn), favoring pragmatic, build-first solutions that reveal real-world attacker behavior. Colleagues describe him as a maker who prefers shipping working defenses over academic theory, and he often surfaces unconventional attack vectors through his tooling. Comfortable across low-level tooling and systems integration, he focuses on durable, auditable controls that scale with operational environments.
10 years of coding experience
Computing Security, Computing Security at Rochester Institute of Technology
Github Skills (93)
custom-search10
google-search10
duckduckgo9
lambda9
molecule9
mitre-attack9
phishing9
podman8
methodology8
ansible8
portable8
python8
vms8
security8
penetration-testing8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
impos73r/GOTN-OSQuery
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:13 commits, 10 pushes in 20 days
scriptingislife/becksteadn.github.io
Oct 2017 - Dec 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 325 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 2 months
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