Current Focus
Senior Software Engineer I supporting KSL products, building and maintaining production application flows and Go-based services in a GCP environment.
Senior Software Engineer Security Engineering Cloud Delivery
Benjamin Payne
I work where practical software engineering, cybersecurity, and emerging technology meet. My strongest work is turning ambiguous technical risk into systems, tools, and decisions that teams can use.
Security Depth
Security work spans code review, remediation, secrets handling, and secure coding in production and academic projects.
Education
M.S. in Cybersecurity from Utah Valley University, 4.0 GPA, Outstanding Student Award. B.S. in Computer Science with Computer Engineering emphasis.
Evidence
Applied Security and Engineering
Maintains a public cybersecurity tools and learning site at trixtur.fun.
Designed a reproducible OSINT framework for resource-constrained organizations as a cybersecurity capstone.
Published an AI social engineering challenge at trixtur.fun/ai.
Created security learning material covering OSINT, web exploitation, and prompt injection.
Delivered guest lectures on cybersecurity in AI at De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde, Far Eastern University, and the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
Built GitHub Actions CI/CD for Go and Node.js projects, including test runs, deployment automation, and production support.
Works in GCP and AWS environments, with hands-on use of Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Go, TypeScript, Python, JavaScript, SQL, and Linux/Unix systems.
Timeline
Selected Recent Experience
- Jun 2022 - Present KSL Senior Software Engineer I supporting classifieds, marketplace, and KSL application work.
- May 2019 - Jun 2022 Rain Retail Software Senior Software Engineer
- Jul 2018 - Apr 2019 Reach Reporting Backend Software Engineer