Ty Smith
Principal Technical Marketing Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTy Smith is a Principal Technical Marketing Engineer in Austin with over two decades of hands-on experience in information security, network architecture, and high-availability SaaS environments. He has led offensive research and security testing teams, built an automated evasion testing framework with 800+ test cases, and now validates cybersecurity products' efficacy at scale. Prior roles include designing global SaaS networks for IBM and operating complex continuous exploit replay environments, demonstrating a rare blend of deep network engineering and adversarial security expertise. An active contributor to the popular Checkov project, he has improved tests, core logic, and documentation to help prevent cloud misconfigurations. Colleagues rely on him to translate rigorous technical findings into actionable product guidance and engaging technical marketing. He combines practitioner-level lab experience with public open-source contributions, making him equally fluent in exploit development, defensive design, and developer-facing security tools.
8 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Tyler Graduate SchoolBachelor of Science, Bachelor of Science at Texas A&M University
Github Skills (14)
terraformer10
kubernetes10
python10
terraform10
kubernetes-pods10
testing10
cicd9
devops9
microsoft-azure9
aws9
gcp9
azure9
static-analysis9
infrastructure-as-code9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
bridgecrewio/checkov
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
Prevent cloud misconfigurations and find vulnerabilities during build-time in infrastructure as code, container images and open source packages with Checkov by Bridgecrew.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:268 reviews, 51 commits, 301 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Ty's commits primarily focus on modifying and testing code within the `checkov` repository, a tool for cloud infrastructure security and compliance. They worked on refactoring test code, adding and modifying tests related to several features, and updating core logic. Additionally, they were also responsible for updating documentation, enhancing the output description, and improving code readability, showing a well-rounded set of contributions.
gcppolicy-as-codecomplianceaws-securityaws
tsmithv11/supersockshop
Oct 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:247 PRs, 242 pushes, 239 branches in 1 year 4 months
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