Neil Smithline is a security consultant and seasoned technical leader with 14+ years of hands-on experience in application and crypto security, currently advising at Radius and AnchorZero. He has held senior security roles at Poloniex and Circle and led division-wide security programs at Autodesk, blending executive strategy with practical secure-by-design guidance. An OWASP Top-10 co-lead and active appsec practitioner, he builds developer-focused security education and integrates security into SDLCs across desktop, cloud, and crypto platforms. His background includes enterprise security architecture at BEA and open-source contributions (notably tooling used on GitHub and Jekyll work) developed during a career break spent as a single-parent caregiver. Known for translating complex compliance and threat models into actionable engineering practices, he balances deep technical depth with cross-team leadership.
14 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at University of Rochester
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University at Buffalo
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 5 branches in 3 months
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