Peter Backlund
Principal Cybersecurity R&D Engineer at Sandia National Laboratories
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area United States
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Top SchoolPeter Backlund is a Principal Cybersecurity R&D Engineer with 18 years of technical experience and 13 years focused as a malware analyst and vulnerability researcher, currently leading research efforts at Sandia National Laboratories. He blends deep applied research with hands-on reverse engineering to expose and mitigate threats, and has progressed through senior technical roles at Sandia since 2013. Peter’s background includes rigorous engineering training (BS cum laude, advanced studies at UT Austin) and meaningful backend development contributions to open-source projects like the original DDD sample app, where he reshaped core domain logic and test suites. Known for translating complex adversary behaviors into actionable detection and mitigation techniques, he pairs academic discipline with pragmatic tool-building for national-security scale problems. Colleagues describe him as a methodical investigator who surfaces subtle, non-obvious attack vectors and turns those insights into resilient, auditable systems.
18 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaMS/PhD, ENGINEERING, MS/PhD, ENGINEERING at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (12)
domain-modeling10
javas10
hibernate10
java10
spring-boot9
unit-testing8
webservice8
restful-api7
api-design7
api-rest7
rest-api7
jms7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
citerus/dddsample-core
Dec 2007 - Mar 2010
This is the new home of the original DDD Sample app (previously hosted at sf.net)..
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:508 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily contributed to the core logic of the application, focusing on features related to cargo handling and routing. Their work involved significant changes to the domain model, including implementing new classes for handling activities, schedules, and voyages. The user was also responsible for updating tests to accommodate these changes.
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