Michael Dong
Senior Application Security Engineer
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Dong is a Senior Application Security Engineer based in Seattle with a decade of hands-on experience building security tooling and automations at scale for companies like Apple and Amazon. He has driven platform-level detective controls, knowledge graphs for access tracking, and insider-threat automation that serve thousands of accounts and dozens of internal teams. Earlier work at Rackspace contributed to open-source API security tooling (Syntribos) and large-scale vulnerability assessments, blending developer instincts with rigorous threat modeling. Michael focuses on making the web safer and more trustworthy by delivering practical, auditable security solutions that developers can adopt, and he brings a rare combination of product-minded engineering and open-source collaboration to enterprise security problems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, 3.3, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, 3.3 at The University of Texas at Austin
English
Github Skills (22)
cyclonedx10
testing10
sbom10
container-image10
security10
owasp10
spdx10
dependency-track10
api-security10
sca10
python9
docker9
openstack9
logfile8
cd8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
openstack-archive/syntribos
Aug 2015 - Dec 2018
Python API security testing tool from OpenStack Security Group
Contributions:79 commits in 3 years 4 months
api-securityopenstackpythonsecuritytesting
MCDong/ktanemeter
Apr 2019 - Feb 2024
Modding toolkit for Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
Contributions:1 PR, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
moddingkeepkeep-talking-and-nobody-explodes
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