Caroline Russell
Staff Security Engineer at AppThreat
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCaroline Russell is a Staff Security Engineer based in Durham, NC, with three years in security-focused roles and a background in system administration dating back to managing production servers and 100+ endpoints. She leverages a B.S. in Information Technology and practical skills in Python, PHP, C#, PowerShell, MySQL, and SQL to maintain and evolve AppThreat tools and contribute to OWASP projects like dep-scan and cdxgen. Her experience implementing customer solutions at Square 9 sharpened her ability to translate business needs into secure, auditable technical workflows. Comfortable across stacks from databases to scripting and tooling, she combines hands-on coding with practical operational security. Notably, she blends long-term infrastructure experience with modern application security work, enabling pragmatic vulnerability detection and remediation.
3 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Information Technology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Information Technology at University of North Carolina Wilmington
Github Skills (123)
devsecops10
dependency-analysis10
vulnerability-scanners10
sbom10
security10
dependency-track10
malware10
cyclonedx10
acme10
secrets10
owasp10
vault10
golang10
vulnerabilities10
sca10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
AppThreat/custom-json-diff
May 2024 - Dec 2024
A utility to compare json documents containing dynamically-generated fields.
Contributions:32 releases, 10 reviews, 73 PRs in 7 months
json-document
cerrussell/dep-scan
May 2023 - Oct 2024
Fully open-source security audit for project dependencies based on known vulnerabilities and advisories. Supports both local repos and container images. Integrates with various CI environments such as Azure Pipelines, CircleCI and Google CloudBuild. No server required!
Contributions:4 PRs, 159 pushes, 14 branches in 1 year 4 months
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