Brooks Beverstock
Security Engineer at Cresta
Herndon, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolBrooks Beverstock is a Security Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience specializing in cloud security and automation, currently securing systems at Cresta after a multi-year tenure at Amazon Web Services. He has progressed through roles from system engineer to Security Engineer II at AWS, giving him deep operational knowledge of large-scale cloud environments and practical threat mitigation. Brooks combines engineering rigor with automation-first approaches to reduce risk, accelerate incident response, and harden cloud-native workloads. His background includes government research programming and IT management, reflecting an ability to translate technical complexity into reliable, auditable controls. Based in Herndon, Virginia, he pairs advanced academic credentials from Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia with boots-on-the-ground experience protecting high-traffic platforms. Colleagues know him for pragmatic security solutions that scale and for bringing a developer’s mindset to defensive engineering.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Master's degree at Virginia TechAS, AS at Northern Virginia Community CollegeBA, BA at University of Virginia
English, Spanish
Github Skills (123)
firefox-addon10
linux10
raspbian10
firefox10
steam10
userspace10
accessibility10
chrome-extension10
darkmode10
driver10
gnu10
mining9
miner9
python9
proton9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
bmbeverst/depths
Aug 2016 - Mar 2020
Contributions:26 commits, 29 pushes in 3 years 8 months
bmbeverst/proxmox-flatcar
Feb 2024 - May 2025
A proxmox tool to create flatcar VM template on proxmox foked from Geco-It fedora-coreos-proxmox
Contributions:21 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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