Asher Martin

S

Senior Security Engineer at Cobalt AI · Application security · IAM, AppSec

Cobalt AI
Dallas, TX · CT (UTC-6)
7+ years experience
Boston University
English
LearningCollaborating
Messaging unavailable

Overview

7 years in software engineering, the last 2 at Cobalt AI, where I work on the product security team. Led the migration of 33 services to AppSec. Most at home with SAST and IAM. Big believer in written communication.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Collaborators for my side project
  • Mentors who have done this before
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
Please don't message about
  • Agency or outsourcing pitches
  • SEO and link-building offers
  • Courses and coaching offers

Slower in the last week of each quarter

Skills
threat modelingSASTcloud securityAppSecBurp SuiteIAM
LearningLearning something
closes in 3 months

Learning SAST - want a mentor for monthly reviews

Goal
Prepare for senior interviews in application security.
Where I am now
Some experience
Ideal mentor
Someone who has worked in application security for a few years
Cadence
Weekly
What I can offer back
Introductions in my college network

7 years in so far. Looking for honest feedback, once or twice a month.

Dallas, TX · remote OKcloud securityburp suiteappsec
Open
CollaboratingLooking to collaborate
closes in 3 months

Looking for collaborators on an open-source Burp Suite toolkit

Project
An open-source Burp Suite toolkit
Skills needed
Burp Suite, Backend
Time commitment
Part-time
Outcome
Small product with real users

Will credit everyone who contributes. Async-first.

Dallas, TX · remote OKappsecthreat modelingsast
Open

Experience

  1. Senior Security Engineer
    Jul 2024 - Present
    Cobalt AI · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Dallas, TX
    • Grew the product security team from 6 to 34 engineers.
    • Built the experimentation framework 15 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Brought on-call pages for product security down from 21 a week to 3.
  2. Security Engineer
    Sep 2020 - Jul 2024
    Bain & Company · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Dallas, TX
    • Moved 77% of product security traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  3. Security Engineer
    Oct 2019 - Sep 2020
    Bank of America · 11 mo · Full-time · Dallas, TX
    • Reduced cloud spend on product security by 45% in two quarters.

Projects

Open-source IAM toolkit
2024

A small library for application security that 295 developers star on GitHub.

Application security benchmark
2022

Reproducible benchmarks comparing Burp Suite and cloud security on real workloads.

References

No references yet.

Education

  1. Boston University
    BS, Information Technology
    2015 - 2019

Details

Compensation expectations
What they are targeting for their next role.
Visible to connections
Direct contact details
Direct email and a scheduling link.
Visible to connections