Carrie Roberts
Senior Distinguished Engineer, AI Red Team at Walmart Global Tech
Meridian, Idaho, United States
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Top SchoolCarrie Roberts is a Senior Distinguished Engineer leading Walmart’s AI Red Team with nine years in security and a long prior career in software and hardware engineering. A GSE and MSISE graduate, she pivoted from web and hardware engineering at Hewlett-Packard to offensive security at Black Hills and later built detection and dynamic defense capabilities at Walmart. Carrie is a prolific open-source contributor to high-impact projects such as Atomic Red Team and Invoke-AtomicRedTeam, improving automation, logging, and install flexibility for MITRE ATT&CK-based testing. She speaks regularly at conferences, publishes technical write-ups, and brings a rare combination of blue-team detection expertise and red-team tooling craftsmanship. Based in Meridian, Idaho, she pairs deep academic credentials in computer science and mechanical engineering with practical, hands-on exploits and defenses—often contributing non-obvious tooling enhancements like proxy-install controls and advanced Office macro obfuscation.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at California State University-ChicoMaster of Science (MS), Information Security Engineering, 3.86 gpa, Master of Science (MS), Information Security Engineering, 3.86 gpa at SANS Technology InstituteBachelor of Science (BS), Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Mechanical Engineering at Oregon State University
Github Skills (22)
github-ci10
scripting10
macros10
it-security10
vba10
security10
security-testing10
automation10
script10
malware10
install-script10
powershell10
automations10
githubaction-workflow10
devops10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
redcanaryco/invoke-atomicredteam
Aug 2019 - Dec 2022
Invoke-AtomicRedTeam is a PowerShell module to execute tests as defined in the [atomics folder](https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/tree/master/atomics) of Red Canary's Atomic Red Team project.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:13 releases, 48 reviews, 180 commits in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Carrie contributed significantly to the automation and enhancement of the Invoke-AtomicRedTeam project. The commits reveal changes to the installation process, introduction of parameters for custom installation and a separate installation process for atomics. These changes included modifying install scripts, adding options for remote execution and improvements to the logging functionality. The user also added a feature to allow for setting proxy credentials during the install.
atomicspowershell-module
redcanaryco/atomic-red-team
Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
Small and highly portable detection tests based on MITRE's ATT&CK.
Role in this project:Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:1139 reviews, 340 commits, 1665 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Carrie primarily contributed to the development and enhancement of the Atomic Red Team project, a collection of detection tests based on MITRE ATT&CK. Their work involved significant modifications to the PowerShell-based execution framework, including features to support prerequisites, cleanup commands, and test execution logging. They also added features to the documentation, and improved the usability. The user's commits demonstrate a focus on creating robust and well-documented testing capabilities.
mitremitre-attackportable
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