Summary
Steve Stonebraker is a security engineering leader with 13 years of hands-on experience building offensive programs and enterprise defenses across finance, healthcare, and SaaS. As Director of Security Engineering & Offensive Operations he runs 20+ annual pentests, authors reporting and peer-review standards, and has a track record of chaining cloud, identity, endpoint, and network flaws to achieve full enterprise compromise. He combines deep red-team tooling and automation—authoring Burp extensions like BlazorBridge, publishing HARBringer, and building AI-augmented platforms such as VulnCrafter—with pragmatic blue-team delivery, having led large CrowdStrike, CSPM, and SIEM rollouts. Steve’s background spans incident response, forensics, and cloud architecture, and he’s delivered measurable business impact from stopping fraud and ransomware to accelerating secure SaaS go-lives. Notably, he developed custom discovery and exploit pipelines that surfaced decade-old exposures at a Fortune 200 client and cut pentest write-up time by 85%, demonstrating a rare blend of research, engineering, and operationalization.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Computer Information Network Security, Masters Computer Information Network Security at DePaul University
English, German, Spanish, bash, bat, python, powershell