Professional snapshot
Nathan Orr
Security Engineering Manager · Austin, TX
Security engineer and former threat researcher working across SIEM/SOAR,
WAF policy, cloud security, threat hunting and security automation.
Current Focus
- Managing a security engineering team since March 2026.
- Designing alert frameworks and response workflows across cloud and product security.
- Building automation that turns messy security work into repeatable systems.
Recent Experience
- Apex Fintech Solutions — Security Engineering / InfoSec, Aug 2023 to present.
- Imperva — Threat Research, WAF bypasses, CVE analysis, DDoS and DNS security.
- AquaQ / Deloitte — Java and backend engineering in financial services.
Selected Work
- Built a vulnerability management platform using Svelte, FastAPI and PostgreSQL.
- Created CVE prioritisation logic using real-world exploitation signals beyond CVSS.
- Developed Python tooling to reduce manual security operations work.
Education
MSc Applied Cyber Security and BSc Computing and Information Technology, Queen's University Belfast.