Built, shipped, and presented
Chris Maenner
Founder & Principal Security Consultant
15+ years of security leadership across startups and Fortune-50 enterprises: product security, cloud infrastructure, developer tooling, and AI risk. Executive strategy backed by hands-on implementation. Below, the work behind that claim.
Applications & platforms
OWASP CTF
Led development of the OWASP capture-the-flag platform
Built and operated the competition platform for the flagship application-security community's global CTF events.
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Blue Team Village CTF
Led development of the Blue Team Village CTF
Engineered the defensive-security competition platform run at major conferences for thousands of competitors.
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BSides Philadelphia
Board member
Helping steer Philadelphia's community security conference: programming, operations, and community growth.
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OWASP Secure Agent Playbook
Open-source contributor
Contributing OWASP-grounded procedures for securing AI agents, from code review to AI agent security audits.
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DopaHits
Founder and developer
Live music discovery app: concerts tonight, this weekend, and beyond, with trending artists and venues for your city. Designed, built, and operated end to end.
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Presentations
Securing AI Workloads in Kubernetes · Conference talk
Lessons from scaling startups: identity-first security, east-west controls, AI workload isolation, and a live from-insecure-to-secure cluster demo with kind, Cilium, and Hubble.
Leveraging AI for Advanced Cyber Defense · Tech in Motion
Panel discussion on how security teams are putting AI to work in modern cyber defense.
A Deep Dive on Implementing Developer-Centric Application Security (DevSecOps) · Cloud Security Alliance, Delaware Valley chapter
Panel discussion on making DevSecOps real: embedding application security into the workflows developers already use.
How Microsoft Made Me Love SIEMs Again · BSides Philadelphia
A practitioner's take on modern detection tooling and what it changes for security operations.
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