Connor Laidlaw

Application Security Engineer Ii @SeatGeek

New York, NY, US

Discovered & patched dozens of vulnerabilities through white box code review, including numerous criticals- Performed a multi-month purple team engagement on SeatGeek\'s bot protection stack with the goal of simulating the behaviour of ticket scalpers- Developed an internal python \"botting\" framework, used for both researching new anti detection techniques in our own services, and then deploying automated regression tests once they have been mitigated- Responded to dozens of bot attacks, quickly identifying behavioural patterns to block the traffic in real time before then attempting to investigate (and sometimes replicate) their behaviour to better understand how they were able to bypass our protections- Triaged hundreds of SAST findings (Semgrep) in order to tune our overly noisy ruleset & then create more effective custom rules.

Sheridan College

Bachelor's degree