Julian Runnels
Summary
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SeniorJulian Runnels is a security leader with eight years of experience specializing in Offensive Security, GRC, and DevSecOps, currently serving as Director of Engineering Services at Trace3 in Irvine. He blends hands-on red team expertise across web, network, and cloud environments with practical DevSecOps engineering to secure cloud infrastructure and delivery pipelines. Julian has progressed through technical and managerial roles at Trace3—from penetration tester to practice leader—demonstrating a pattern of scaling teams and services to meet client needs. He focuses on designing team structures that maximize client value in security engagements, balancing technical depth with governance and risk considerations. His background in business and finance from UC Irvine and international study at HKUST gives him uncommon fluency in aligning security strategy with business priorities. Colleagues note his ability to translate complex offensive findings into actionable program-level improvements rather than just technical reports.
8 years of coding experience
Github Skills (26)
password-manager10
docker9
vulnerabilities8
report-generator8
pentest8
vaultwarden8
linux8
penetration-testing8
infosec7
security7
audit7
raspberry-pi7
packer6
wifi6
collaboration6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
JulianRunnels/Vaultwarden_Self_Host
Apr 2020 - Nov 2022
Automatically setup and host a Vaultwarden (unoffical Bitwarden) instance on a Raspberry Pi or other Linux Server
Contributions:52 commits, 21 PRs, 35 pushes in 2 years 7 months
linuxraspberry-pivaultwardendockerpassword-manager
JulianRunnels/snps
Sep 2020 - Sep 2020
tools for reading, writing, merging, and remapping SNPs
Contributions:17 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
remappingsnpsgenomicsmergingbioinformatics
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