Paul Salessi
Principal Offensive Security Engineer at Oracle
Sacramento, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Salessi is a Principal Offensive Security Engineer based in Sacramento with 11 years of experience securing large-scale enterprise environments, now leading offensive security at Oracle. He blends hands-on red teaming and vulnerability management with deep engineering expertise—building security data pipelines, Kafka stream processing, and Splunk-driven analytics that handled 16+ TB/day and surfaced millions of security events. At Intel he delivered measurable operational improvements, from discovering 1,000+ shadow IT apps to driving a 52% reduction in unmanaged accounts and boosting patch compliance through bespoke apps and dashboards. Comfortable both coding (Python, Java, SQL, Ansible, Docker) and mentoring teams, Paul has a track record of turning complex telemetry into actionable controls and pragmatic tooling. His career arc shows a bias for measurable impact: automating visibility, reducing risk, and making security data useful for real decision-making.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of California, Davis
Github Skills (10)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
DS-KoolAid/tacocon_CTF_2020
May 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:31 commits, 5 pushes in 1 month
psalessi/AdobeConnectData
Feb 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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