Zachary Stein is a Senior Consultant specializing in adversary simulation with six years of hands-on experience conducting red team operations, purple teaming, and offensive research to strengthen enterprise detection and response. Based in Denver, he has progressed from incident response and threat intelligence roles into leading tailored red team campaigns and developing custom tooling for complex engagements at SpecterOps and Optiv. Zachary publishes his research and tools on a personal GitHub research blog and repository, bridging practical client work with community-facing contributions. He combines a business-school background with deep technical fluency across SIEM/EDR platforms, making him adept at translating technical findings into actionable detection improvements. Notably, he routinely builds bespoke infrastructure for phishing and C2 operations when open-source tools won’t suffice, ensuring realistic threat emulation and measurable blue team gains.
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Major College of Business/Minor Information Technologies, Major College of Business/Minor Information Technologies at Florida State University
High School, High School at Northside Christian High School
Contributions:21 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 27 days
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