Jarom Brown

Bug Bounty - Senior Security Engineer at GitHub

Plano, Texas, United States

About

I love solving complex problems, enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, and improving processes through automation. I am an experienced Software Engineer with a passion for Cyber Security. I am a strong engineering professional with a deep sense of ownership. Capable of being an individual contributor or leading a team.

Experience

  • Senior Security Engineer at GitHub
    Oct 2025 - Present · 9 mos

    Senior Product Security Engineer on GitHub’s Bug Bounty team, helping secure products and empower developers to build safely. Passionate about vulnerability management, application security, and partnering closely with engineering teams and researchers to drive security impact.

  • Capital One (12 yrs 5 mos)
    • Responsible Disclosure/Bug Bounty - Sr. Lead Software Engineer
      Mar 2021 - Oct 2025 · 4 yrs 8 mos

      Leverage knowledge of systems to efficiently triage and assess severity of incoming reports received through various channels. Responsible for interfacing and building relationships internally and with external researchers to build the program and increase security of the company. Meet with dev teams when needed to ensure findings are fully understood and ensure fixes happen in a timely manner. Automate the discovery of similar issues across our external footprint where possible. Stay up to date on new vulnerabilities and techniques in the industry. Build software solutions for gaps in processes or inefficiencies that exist or arise from growth of the program.

    • Cyber Threat Intelligence - Sr. Lead Software Engineer
      Feb 2020 - Mar 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos

      Threat Intelligence Software Engineer skilled in AWS, Python, and Angular. Enhances efficiency through automation and innovation, developing web applications and tools to tackle Cyber challenges.

    • Cyber Threat Intelligence - Lead Software Engineer
      Dec 2018 - Feb 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos

      Software Engineer in Threat Intelligence. Increase efficiency through automation and innovation. Leverage AWS, Python, and Angular to build exceptional experiences and automate processes that will increase team's efficiency, such as ingestion of IOC's and proactive monitoring of phishing threats.

  • Web Developer at Xcelus
    Aug 2012 - Jun 2013 · 11 mos

    • Created “responsive” web applications that are used for training purposes in large enterprise companies • In charge of creating database design and schema • Programming done using PHP, MySQL, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and JQuery

  • Technical Intern at Yahoo!
    May 2012 - Aug 2012 · 4 mos

    • Created web application that allows editors to query all sites to find specific module use and configurations • Used SVN for version control • Won 1st place in the security week competition (1200 participants)

  • Web Developer at Brigham Young University
    Sep 2007 - May 2012 · 4 yrs 9 mos

    • Assisted in development of new byucougars.com using Drupal • Upgraded features and modules on site • Developed portlets within the UPortal Environment using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Restful API’s • Successfully programmed frontend and backend of Campus IP Television