Paul Ionescu
Senior Manager, Product Security, Enterprise Security Group at Broadcom
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Ionescu is a senior product security leader with 15+ years of experience building security programs, tools and culture across enterprise products, now leading product security for Broadcom’s Enterprise Security Group. He has led global teams at VMware, Trend Micro and IBM to integrate secure development practices, automate security testing pipelines, and drive compliance and incident response for large-scale cloud and endpoint products. A hands-on former security developer and ethical hacker, he contributes to OWASP’s Secure Coding Dojo by hardening practical challenge exercises and improving authentication and vulnerability scenarios. Paul combines strategic program leadership with deep technical chops—threat modeling, SAST/DAST/SCA integration and build-pipeline security—while also mentoring distributed teams and interfacing with customers on security assurances. Based in Canada, he is an inventor and martial-arts enthusiast who balances technical rigor with a practical, people-first approach to security.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Universitatea Tehnica "Gh. Asachi" din Iasi, Romania
French, Romanian, English
Github Skills (10)
it-security10
javas10
web-security10
buffer-overflow10
xss10
java10
security10
user-authentication9
authentication9
javascript8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
OWASP/SecureCodingDojo
Aug 2017 - Nov 2022
The Secure Coding Dojo is a platform for delivering secure coding knowledge.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 reviews, 346 commits, 111 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Paul contributed to the OWASP Secure Coding Dojo by implementing and improving various security challenges. Their work included fixing XSS vulnerabilities, enhancing buffer overflow challenges, and adding features such as Google and local authentication. The commits demonstrate a focus on addressing security vulnerabilities in web applications and the integration of various authentication mechanisms.
secure-codingowasptraining-portal
OWASP/www-project-secure-coding-dojo
Dec 2019 - Jan 2023
OWASP Foundation Web Repository
Contributions:1 review, 40 commits, 3 PRs in 3 years 1 month
owasp
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