danbadds38 - Overview

Dan Baddeley

🧬 Who I am

Seasoned DevSecOps leader, cloud architect, and entrepreneur on a mission to make robust cybersecurity accessible to organisations of every size — from SMBs to governments.

Over a decade securing Fortune 100 companies, scaling global platforms, and leading high-performing engineering teams across some of the highest-stakes environments in finance and technology — including the NYSE, NASDAQ, and FS-ISAC threat intelligence repositories. Built automation tooling now trusted by Google, Worldpay, and Chase.

Today I channel all of that into one thing: BestDefense.io.

Cost and complexity should never stand in the way of resilience.

🛡️ What I'm building

BestDefense.io is a unified AI-driven security platform that eliminates the chaos of fragmented tools. One platform. Zero silos. Proactive by default.

Platform capabilities

⚡ DDoS emulation at billion-user scale
🕵️ Dynamic honeypot deception networks
🤖 AI-driven penetration testing in real time
🔬 Chaos Engineering as a Service (CEaaS)
📡 Real-time threat intelligence feeds
🔗 GitHub CI/CD integration — scan every PR automatically

Mission

🏢 Serve SMBs → Enterprise → Government
🧹 Eliminate manual security overhead
🔭 Proactively address threats before breach
🌍 Democratize best-in-class AppSec
🤝 Pair threat intelligence with actionable insights

Integrate. Automate. Secure.

Currently shipping ──► GitHub CI/CD integration (vortex-action)
Currently exploring ──► Agentic AI remediation & autonomous red-teaming

🧰 Tech stack

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⚡ Outside the terminal

🎵 Music producer — beats, production, the whole thing
🔐 Obsessed with the intersection of AI and offensive security
🌍 Building tools I wish existed when I was the one breaking things
💬 Always up to talk shop — cybersecurity, cloud architecture, AI, or any of the above

"The best defense is knowing exactly where you're vulnerable."