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akawer/README.md

Hi, I'm Aaron Kawer

Senior Security Engineer
Detection Engineering · Offensive Security · AI Security
Ex-Microsoft Red Team

Website · LinkedIn · Photography


I’m a security engineer focused on building practical security systems informed by real attacker behavior.

I started my career as a Software Engineer at Microsoft before moving into Microsoft’s Red Team, where I worked on adversary-minded security assessments across large-scale services, applications, authentication flows, distributed systems, and protocols.

Today, my work focuses on detection engineering, detection-as-code, threat hunting, telemetry quality, and high-signal detection design. I’m especially interested in building security tooling that helps teams reason through attack paths, close coverage gaps, and improve security operations.

I also build practical AI security tooling where it can improve analyst productivity, knowledge retrieval, PR workflows, and detection development.

What I focus on

Attacker-informed detection Designing detections from realistic attack paths, telemetry gaps, and incident response needs.
Security engineering Building maintainable detection-as-code workflows, internal tooling, and scalable security processes.
Offensive-to-defensive security Using red team experience to improve detection coverage, secure code review, and practical defensive controls.

Outside of security, I enjoy photography and music.

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