Zach Grace
Technical Director at Praetorian
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZach Grace is a Technical Director and seasoned security leader with 11 years in IT and eight years focused on penetration testing, red teaming, and application security. He has progressed from hands-on roles (penetration tester and systems programmer) to leading red team and vulnerability management functions at enterprise firms like Northwestern Mutual and Praetorian. A frequent conference speaker (DerbyCon, CypherCon, BSides Chicago), Zach blends practical offensive security skills with program-level leadership and a strong emphasis on quality—evident in his open-source contributions and QA-focused improvements to tools like changeme. His background spans consulting and in-house roles across finance and professional services, giving him a pragmatic sense for risk reduction at scale. Based in Milwaukee, he pairs technical depth with a knack for making tooling more reliable and testable, not just effective.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS Industrial Computer Science, BS Industrial Computer Science at Illinois State University
Github Skills (6)
unit-testing10
test-framework10
python10
security-scanner10
pytest9
automated-tests9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ztgrace/changeme
Feb 2016 - Apr 2020
A default credential scanner.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:15 releases, 234 commits, 54 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Zach's contributions primarily involved adding unit testing and refactoring existing code within the repository. These changes included the creation of test cases, implementation of testing frameworks, and overall improvements to the code structure, suggesting a focus on software quality assurance. The commits showcase the user's effort to improve the robustness and maintainability of the codebase by incorporating comprehensive testing practices. The impact of this work would be increased code reliability.
scannerpythonsecurity-toolsbugbountysecurity
ztgrace/sticky_keys_hunter
Mar 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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