Wes Ring
Senior Application Offensive Security Engineer
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWes Ring is a Senior Application Offensive Security Engineer with 11 years of experience blending application security design and offensive testing across fintech and analytics environments. Currently at Block, he progressed from application security design into product-focused offensive security, bringing practical red-team techniques to secure large-scale payment platforms. His background at SAS includes roles from R&D intern to senior associate, giving him a unique perspective on both secure development and security operations for analytics products. Hands-on experience building internal cloud tools at Pentair and contributing to Electron/Node-based tooling at SAS underpins his comfort with full-stack debugging and automation. Based in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area, he pairs methodical threat modeling with pragmatic exploit validation to turn theoretical risks into actionable mitigation plans. An inquisitive infosec tinkerer, he often explores “random things” outside work that inform creative approaches to application security.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Github Skills (37)
group-policy9
applocker9
git-plumbing9
gitpython9
internet-explorer9
adobe-reader8
matrix8
jira8
nessus7
windows-server7
python7
ssh7
windows6
openssh6
compliance5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
WesR/jira-dark-theme
Feb 2019 - Feb 2021
A dark theme for jira
Contributions:1 review, 8 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years
jira
WesR/Halcyon
Oct 2021 - Feb 2022
Halcyon is a Matrix bot library created with the intention of being easy to install and use.
Contributions:70 commits, 56 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
matrixmatrix-librarypython3
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