Steve Regester

• Building an Electron desktop application that drives Ansys HFSS electromagnetic simulation through an LLM agent interface, on the Anthropic API and Claude Agent SDK.

First engineer at a VC- and In-Q-Tel-backed cybersecurity company using AI to automate binary reverse engineering.

• Designed the platform architecture - SaaS product, database, and API layer - and built the distributed pipeline (Celery, RabbitMQ) that runs reverse-engineering workloads reliably at scale.
• Developed the analyst-facing product in React Router v7 / Remix, including real-time dashboards for reviewing automated analysis results.
• Partnered with security researchers to turn manual reverse-engineering workflows into reviewable, automated artifacts.
• Built and operated AWS infrastructure from scratch with Terraform, plus CI/CD, feature flags, and observability (Sentry, Hotjar).
• Hired and mentored engineers, ran code review, and established security-first development practices.

• Monetization engineering for a widely used audio and video editing product - implemented in-app paywalls and subscription upgrade flows.

Led all web and cloud engineering - recruiting, mentoring, and leading a full-stack team while contributing daily to code, review, and deployment.

• Led the cloud-native rewrite of a flagship Windows product into a performant, accessible web platform (Node.js, React) for pharmaceutical-research customers, on AWS infrastructure built with Terraform, Helm, and Kubernetes.
• Took the platform through a rigorous third-party security audit and the company's first SOC 2.
• Drove a >50% reduction in coding errors in one year through technical training, QA process, and routine code review.
• Recruited and mentored the team; led adoption of agile practices, reducing project delays and improving morale.

Lead engineer rebuilding key product verticals of a crowdsourced security-testing platform, with a focus on quality, maintainability, and reduced technical debt.

• Rebuilt the interfaces for top product verticals, increasing user engagement >60% in under a year.
• Led development of new workflows and interfaces used by enterprise customers and vetted security researchers.
• Established internal coding standards and style guides adopted across the engineering team.

• Co-founded and built a crowd-fundraising platform triggering automated donations to 501(c)(3) nonprofits from real-world events - real-time event processing with Apache NiFi, deployed with Docker and Kubernetes on GCP.

Lead frontend engineer building workflows and tools for the team discovering and analyzing Android malware.

• Designed and built custom research tooling that doubled the security-research team's productivity in under a year.
• Partnered daily with malware researchers to turn analysis workflows into software they actually used.
• Authored the open-source OraculumJS (enterprise JS MVC) and FactoryJS (DI container) frameworks.

• Generalist building features and interfaces for cloud document management; performance and cross-browser test work.

Earlier: Backbone.js consultant at Plug.dj (2012-2013); Software Engineer at Arrowhead Electronic Healthcare (2010-2011); Sr. Software Developer at Infrahealth (2009-2010); founding member of ATX Hackerspace (2009-2011).