Steve Beaty
Profesor at Metropolitan State University of Denver
Littleton, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Beaty is a veteran computer science professor and cybersecurity practitioner with over two decades of teaching and a dozen years of focused professional experience bridging academia and industry. Based in Littleton, Colorado, he teaches and leads at Metropolitan State University of Denver while advising organizations as a cybersecurity consultant and CMMC provisional instructor. Technically fluent in Linux, Java, Python, Scala, C/C++, Docker, networking and compilers, he pairs deep systems-level skills with practical security engineering from work at NCAR and commercial clients. He has stepped into academic leadership as interim dean, demonstrating an ability to translate technical expertise into program and college-level strategy. Notably, his career spans early high-performance computing work at Cray through modern cloud and container practices, giving him a rare longitudinal perspective on systems and security. He blends classroom mentorship with hands-on incident-aware engineering to produce graduates ready for real-world cybersecurity challenges.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
computer science, computer science at Colorado State UniversityMetropolitan State University of Denver
Github Skills (74)
pot10
perfect10
containerization10
honeypot10
leaf10
chrome-extension10
interaction10
outlook9
rootkit9
gmail9
relay9
docker9
ossec9
imessage9
hipchat9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
drsjb80/personaswitcher
Feb 2014 - May 2020
The Personaswitcher Mozilla extension
Contributions:1 release, 114 commits, 19 PRs in 6 years 4 months
mozillamozilla-extensionchrome-extension
drsjb80/dotfiles
Jan 2019 - Oct 2023
Contributions:89 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 10 months
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