Tanner Burns
Co-Founder & Chief Scientist at HiddenLayer
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTanner Burns is a Co-Founder and Chief Scientist with a decade of experience building practical, data-driven security solutions and founding a startup focused on protecting enterprise advantage. Based in Austin, he blends hands-on threat research and data science from roles at BlackBerry, Cylance, Agari, and Qualys to turn large, messy datasets into fast, reliable programmatic tools. He has a track record of shipping user-friendly tooling and has contributed to academic and student-focused security projects, including a CTF platform developed while at Texas State University. Known for simplifying difficult problems, he pairs deep domain expertise in adversary behaviors with pragmatic engineering to operationalize detections and defenses. As an active open-source practitioner, he routinely publishes projects to GitHub and prefers solutions that prioritize speed, reliability, and usability.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Texas State University
Github Skills (33)
chaining5
aio5
async5
python5
ctf-platform4
scale4
jq4
api3
django3
rest-framework3
command-line-tool3
cli3
markdown3
ctf3
django-rest3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
TannerBurns/vtclient
Oct 2018 - Aug 2020
async VirusTotal client
Contributions:41 commits, 46 PRs, 71 pushes in 1 year 9 months
virustotalpythonasyncioasync
TannerBurns/aiovast
Aug 2019 - Feb 2020
Python3 library to easily scale using asyncio
Contributions:68 commits, 102 PRs, 115 pushes in 6 months
pythonasynciopython3-libraryscaleaio
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