Cybersecurity — Offensive Security & Vulnerability Research
Synack Red Team researcher · Washington, DC Metropolitan Area (Northern Virginia)
Ryan Cordell is a cybersecurity practitioner and offensive security researcher whose primary hands-on work is adversarial vulnerability research against live production systems. He has been a member of the Synack Red Team since 2021 and has reported more than 400 vulnerabilities, working under formal triage service-level agreements, embargo terms, and customer remediation and re-test windows.
Alongside that research he has spent a decade in security program leadership — running federal customer operations and a 1,500-researcher red team community at Synack, leading its Special Projects research and development function, and now managing attack surface and vulnerability management at enterprise scale.
Research is conducted through the Synack Red Team, a vetted, invitation-based adversarial testing community operating against customer production environments under contract. Reported findings concentrate in the following classes:
He also authors his own offensive tooling, including a SQL injection discovery engine featuring web application firewall evasion, out-of-band detection, and machine-learning-assisted payload synthesis.
Red Teaming Recognition · Managed project — DARPA · Managed project — DEF CON
Vulnerability research · penetration testing · red team operations · exploit development · vulnerability disclosure and coordinated triage · attack surface management · vulnerability management · security program leadership · Python, PHP, JavaScript
B.A., Public Safety — American Public University System, 2012 · Summa Cum Laude
Professional inquiries: rcordell@protonmail.com
Verified profile: linkedin.com/in/cordellryan