Rodney Beede
Staff Offensive Security Engineer, Red Team at Life360
San Antonio, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolRodney Beede is a Staff Offensive Security Engineer and red team leader with 11 years of hands-on experience breaking and hardening enterprise systems for companies across cloud, storage, and managed services. He progressed from software engineering roles into security leadership at Coalfire and now Life360, blending deep application and cloud security expertise with practical penetration testing and adversary simulation. Rodney’s background includes architecting cloud security at Seagate and conducting complex vulnerability assessments at Rackspace, giving him a rare dual perspective of builder and attacker. He holds an MS in Computer Science from the University of Colorado Boulder and a BS from the University of Oklahoma, grounding his offensive work in strong academic foundations. Known for turning discovery into measurable remediation, he emphasizes operationalizing findings so engineering teams can ship more resilient systems. Based in San Antonio, Rodney pairs a developer’s mindset with red-team creativity to expose realistic risks before adversaries do.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Colorado BoulderBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Oklahoma
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Github Skills (200)
python10
hyper-v10
vagrantfile10
command-line-interface10
backup10
vms10
sftp10
encryption10
jetpack10
compose10
duplicati10
ansible10
webdav10
cli10
virtio10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
rbeede/ansible
Jun 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:128 commits, 9 PRs, 178 pushes in 2 years 6 months
rbeede/rbeede.github.io
Aug 2018 - Mar 2025
Contributions:12 PRs, 232 pushes, 13 branches in 6 years 8 months
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