Tom Cappetta
Vulnerability Research Engineer at Tenable
New York, United States
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Top SchoolTom Cappetta is a Vulnerability Research Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience finding and engineering detection for cyber exposures across infrastructure, web apps, cloud, and networking devices at Tenable. He combines deep offensive security skills—reverse engineering, exploit analysis, and runtime tracing—with practical DevOps and cloud experience from roles at Cisco and JPMorgan Chase to build scalable, automated detection and remediation solutions. Tom has led training and curriculum as an adjunct cybersecurity professor and steers an open-source SecDevOps cyber range project, reflecting a commitment to education and community tooling. Notably, he has delivered measurable operational impact at enterprise scale, including automations that drove multimillion-dollar benefits and global cross-training programs. Based in New York and completing a master’s in Cyber Security Engineering at Syracuse, he bridges academic rigor with production-focused vulnerability research.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Masters (p/t), Cyber Security Engineering, Masters (p/t), Cyber Security Engineering at Syracuse University College of Engineering and Computer ScienceBachelors of Science, Computer Science, Bachelors of Science, Computer Science at State University of New York at Oswego
Github Skills (139)
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virtualization10
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
codesyracuse/mentor-ship
Jun 2020 - Sep 2020
Be a captain or join the crew.
Contributions:23 commits, 14 pushes in 2 months
crewjoin
cappetta/CyberRange
Feb 2019 - Oct 2020
Development repo of the worlds 1st open-source AWS Cyber Range. Medium home - https://medium.com/aws-cyber-range
Contributions:8 commits, 125 PRs, 386 pushes in 1 year 8 months
cybermedium-comawsrangecyber-range
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