bradwoodward.io | Brad. The Engineer.

CONVENTIONS PRESENTED
RSA
DefCon Skytalks
BlackHat
Hexacon
ASIS International
Seattle Tech Ldrs. Summit
Financial Executives International
Kansas City ISSA
SnowFROC

OPEN SOURCE TOOLS
NPK
Hirogen
WARCannon

CERTIFICATIONS
OSWE
OSCE
AWS SAP+SCS
CISSP-ISSAP
CRISC
MCITP: EA
MCSA
CRT

About Me

/Who Am I

My name is Brad Woodward. I’m an AWS Engineering and Security Consultant from Boulder, CO. As an open-source contributor and enthusiast, an offensive security expert, and an automation wizard, I thoroughly enjoy bringing novel tech enablement strategies to every team I join.

Whether you need some state of the art infrastructure automation, a hand with a hybrid cloud or serverless architecture, some muscle behind your DevOps pipeline, or just a skilled engineer to get your project done right. You’ve come to the right place.

Services

/What I do

Security Architect. Automation Specialist. Cloud Wrangler. Hacker.

GOVERNANCE & COMPLIANCE

Bringing IT operations into alignment with governmental and industry-standard regulatory compliance objectives can be overwhelming. Starting with the right leader can make all the difference.

PLATFORM AGNOSTIC

Windows or Linux?
Who cares? We have a job to do!

CLOUD MIGRATIONS

Efficiency at scale. Extreme density. Infinite scalability. The cloud empowers some of the most demanding services in the world. Grab ahold of it and put it to work.

SCALABILITY

Growth doesn’t come without challenges. What worked at 100 should work at 10,000. The right leader will make that happen.

AUTOMATION

DevOps is more than a buzzword; it’s an ideology. The concept of commoditizing and automating your infrastructure can be daunting, but with the right skills, embracing this ideology can be easier than you thought.

INSIGHT

Ignorance is ignorance.
Comprehensive metrics? That is true bliss.

RESILIENCE

The server exploded, and still no downtime? Welcome to true resilience.

ACTIVE DIRECTORY

Love it or hate it, Active Directory is the lifeblood of most corporate infrastructures. Your competitors are underestimating it. Are you?

CUSTOM SOLUTIONS

Connecting the dots for the perfect solution sounds simple enough, but without the experience you’ll never see them. Depth of experience in a vast array of technologies provides the tools to tackle any challenge.

Resume

/My recent career history

Role

May 2020

Principal Security Architect; Observian

Developed the managed security practice from the ground up, with a focus in sophisticated and cost-effective AWS defense techniques.

Director – Labs; Coalfire

AWS subject matter expert and Director of Coalfire Lab's cloud exploitation team. Taught at BlackHat. Presented research at DefCon Skytalks, RSA, and Hexacon. Built and released NPK.

Aug 2017

May 2015

Director – Security Analytics; Applied Trust

Led security assessments for municipalities, hospitals, non-profits, and both high- and low-tech private organizations across PCI, HIPAA, NIST, SOX, and SOC frameworks.

Process/Tool Automation Specialist; IBM

Embraced DevOps ideologies to bring modern tech enablement to legacy IBM products; improving performance, hastening delivery, and tightening developer feedback loops while massively increasing insight and resilience.

Jul 2014

May 2013

Senior Systems Administrator; Connect First

Designed, developed, and implemented custom tooling and bespoke automation to standardize deployments, ease management, improve security, and simplify governance.

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Portfolio

/Things I take pride in

Certifications prove what I know, but my contributions to the industry prove that I’m passionate. Teaching, presenting research, and developing novel attack and defense techniques or tooling are all ways I try to give back.