Stephen Dicato
Senior Security Consultant at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Lynnfield, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolStephen Dicato is a Senior Security Consultant with 14 years of experience helping organizations design and operate secure systems across startups and large enterprises. He has led engineering teams and founded a security-focused startup, served as Director of Engineering at WatchGuard, and now advises AWS customers on building securely in the cloud. His background at MITRE and an ECE degree from RPI give him deep technical grounding in cyber security and systems engineering. A hands-on contributor to open-source tooling, he has improved backend registration and account-activation workflows in the Django ecosystem, reflecting a preference for pragmatic, test-driven fixes that ease operations. Based in Lynnfield, MA, he combines leadership, product-minded engineering, and practical security controls to turn complex risk requirements into auditable, deployable solutions.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
684reputation
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17answers
5questions
Github Skills (11)
database-migrations10
database-migration10
python10
django10
user-registration10
documentation8
ubuntu6
browser6
linux6
user-agent6
networking6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
macropin/django-registration
Jun 2015 - Mar 2020
Django-registration (redux) provides user registration functionality for Django websites.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:68 commits, 55 PRs, 57 pushes in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily contributed to the backend logic and functionality of the Django-registration library. They focused on improving account activation, including handling different activation failure scenarios and adding a boolean to track activation status. Their work involved modifying the registration models and tests, updating the documentation, and creating migrations to handle the new `activated` field. Furthermore, they updated the library version and prepared the project for a new release, including updating the upgrade guide.
djangodjango-registrationreduxuser-registration
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