Kyle Bachmann

Director of Engineering

Seattle, Washington, United States10 yrs 6 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in manual penetration testing and custom tool development.
  • Strong leadership in red teaming and cybersecurity initiatives.
  • Passionate about enhancing security posture through collaboration.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cybersecurity Expert with a focus on Red Team operations and security innovation.

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Other Skills

Penetration TestingSecurity PolicyC#JavaNetwork ArchitectureASP.NET MVCObject Oriented DesignUMLSystems AnalysisCritical ThinkingPythonKill Chain AnalysisOffensive Security ToolsIT Risk ManagementDatabase Design

About

Experienced Security Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the security industry. Skilled in manual penetration testing with COTS tools as well as development of custom tools tactics and procedures. Strong educational background with a Bachelor of Science (BS) focused in Informatics - Information Assurance & Cybersecurity from University of Washington. I focus on securing businesses, and in doing so, carry the knowledge I gain in my assessments forward to not only our customers but our detection and product teams as well. I approach red teaming in a non-confrontational way, I prefer a friendly working relationship with detection specialists and a collaborative environment that fosters a more mature security posture. Security is my passion. I truly believe that every day I spend in the cyber security industry I am paving the way for a safer future. The security arms race is a challenge I love because we are constantly being forced to innovate, implement new technologies, and rethink what's possible. Open to discussing management positions within cyber security of technical goal driven teams.

Experience

Microsoft

6 roles

Principal Security Engineering Manager - Microsoft Red Team: Consumer AI & Gaming

Promoted

Sep 2025Present · 6 mos

Senior Security Engineering Manager - Red Team (Gaming & AI)

Jul 2024Sep 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos

Senior Security Engineering Manager - Offensive Security Engineering

Promoted

Oct 2021Jul 2024 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • Led a global team of engineers in developing and advancing
  • multiple self-service and scalable breach adversary simulation & distributed application security services.
  • Collaborated with Microsoft security product teams, defensive
  • infrastructure security teams, born-secure initiatives, and SDL
  • compliance to translate attack telemetry data into actionable insights.
  • Focused on scaling and shifting left red team systemic findings to identify, prevent, and remediate infrastructure as code vulnerable patterns through dynamic scanning of generated graph representations of infrastructure during the deployment process.

Senior Security Software Engineer - SERPENT Red Team

Promoted

Aug 2021Oct 2021 · 2 mos

  • Led and executed red and purple team operations targeting critical services within Windows, Devices, and Gaming at Microsoft.
  • Took an active role in developing tools, tactics, and procedures to enhance these operations.
  • Spearheaded knowledge-sharing initiatives that empowered customers and security product teams to maximize the value of red/purple team engagements

Security Software Engineer II - SERPENT Red Team

Promoted

Dec 2017Aug 2021 · 3 yrs 8 mos

Security Software Engineer - SERPENT Red Team

Aug 2016Dec 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos

Boeing

Cyber Security Assessment Specialist - Red Team.

Jul 2015Jul 2016 · 1 yr · Bellevue, WA

  • Developed and maintained custom tools for use by Boeing's red team to support our assessment methodology and increase our security awareness and persistence within our environment.
  • Performed manual security assessments alongside certified security professionals on internal & subsidiary systems, contributing to the security of our customer and user data from APTs and other determined human adversaries.
  • Assessment Testing with Kali Linux
  • C# ASP.NET (4.5.2) MVC5 Development
  • Offensive Python
  • Limited C & PERL programming exposure
  • RHEL systems administration I (Class completed)
  • IRC management (Unreal ircd & ZNC)

Education

University of Washington

Bachelor of Science (BS) — Informatics - Information Assurance & Cybersecurity

Jan 2011Jan 2015

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