Pete Bryan
Principal AI Security Research Manager - AI Red Team Lead at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPete Bryan is a Principal AI Security Research Manager leading Microsoft's AI Red Team in Seattle, bringing eight years of focused security research experience and a decade-plus engagement with the wider security community. He builds and leads teams that proactively probe and harden AI and cloud systems by developing novel attack techniques and translating findings into product mitigations across Microsoft. His background spans threat intelligence, SOC design, and hands-on tooling—authoring detection content, KQL and Python notebooks for Sentinel and shaping MSTICPy—reflecting a mix of practitioner and manager instincts. Pete’s GitHub history shows deep technical comfort with offensive tooling and automation (including multi-threaded tooling and proxy integration), underscoring that he evaluates defenses from an attacker’s perspective to drive pragmatic controls. Known for bridging research and engineering, he combines operational threat experience from government and managed security services with product-focused delivery at scale.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at Aston University
English
Github Skills (27)
security-txt10
multithreading10
scripting10
bash10
instagram-api10
security10
exploit10
script10
api10
html10
interaction10
sh10
network-security10
shell10
curl10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
maxrooted/instashell
Mar 2018 - Apr 2018
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits in 11 days
Contributions summary:Pete primarily contributed to the development of an Instagram brute-forcing tool. Their commits focus on adding multi-threading capabilities to improve the tool's efficiency. The contributions included implementing session saving and resuming functionality and fixing bugs related to the resume sessions feature, and false positive flags, which enhanced the tool's usability and accuracy. They also uploaded an install script which suggested they are contributing to the usability for other developers to get started.
8L4NK/blackeye
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
The most complete Phishing Tool, with 32 templates +1 customizable
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Pete contributed by uploading HTML files that mimic login pages for various platforms, including Adobe, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Twitter. These HTML files likely serve as templates for a phishing tool. The code includes HTML structures and references to external resources, suggesting an effort to replicate the look and feel of legitimate websites. The user also added a shell script, likely used for launching the phishing attacks and managing the templates.
phishing-toolinfoseccustomizablesocial-engineeringphishing
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