Rebecca Deck
Principal Application Security Enginer
Cary, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRebecca Deck is a Principal Application Security Engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience securing software across finance, insurance, and tax technology firms, currently leading appsec at Avalara. She combines deep application threat modeling, manual code review, and both SAST/DAST expertise to build repeatable security programs, metrics, and developer training that scale across large engineering organizations. Her background includes creating proof-of-concept exploits to drive remediation, automating regression testing, and managing third-party testing vendors, reflecting a pragmatic balance of offensive and defensive skills. A former US Army infantry officer turned security engineer, she brings disciplined leadership and process rigor to complex security challenges. She holds a BSCIS in Computer Science and a Master’s in Information Security Engineering from SANS, and is known for translating technical risk into actionable developer-centric solutions.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Information Security Engineering, Master’s Degree, Information Security Engineering at SANS Technology InstituteBSCIS, Computer Science, BSCIS, Computer Science at The Ohio State University
Github Skills (11)
metasploit10
extraction8
python5
tshark4
cli4
ios1
microsoft1
excel1
evaluation1
android1
security1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
rangercha/tshark_extractor
Jul 2015 - Nov 2018
Contributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 10 pushes in 3 years 4 months
tsharkextractionpythonpython-wrapperpython3
rangercha/PacketAnalysisIntroClass
Apr 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:8 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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