Provide technical championship and automation expertise
Improving people, process, and tools.
Designing and building secure, modern, cloud-native infrastructure.
Helping teams and organizations on their journey to the cloud.
Experience
Palo Alto Networks Principal Eng - 2020-Current
- Design, develop, and deploy infrastructure as Code (IaC) for customers in
public cloud environments (GCP, OCI, AWS, and Azure) based on best security practices
and reference architectures.
- API automation work.
Salesforce Sr Security Eng - Bellevue, WA - 2014-2019
- Our team designed, built and maintained an in-house large scale security log collection solution to process
over 1B security events per day.
- Built & maintained Data Science Pipeline. We pushed the security logs through a normalizer into
a Hadoop cluster. Built and maintained the Airflow setup to manage and execute our data models.
- Built out data science pipeline in the FedRamp High GovCloud environment in AWS.
- Built out large scale packet capture solution on internal company IT networks.
- Built and maintained the CI/CD pipeline architecture for the SDE team.
Indiana University Principal Research Eng - 2012-2013
- Test Architect in Software Defined Networking Lab, designed test cases and directed test efforts on openflow
networks.
Nokia Siemens Networks Research & Development Eng - 2011-2012
McHenry County College Adjunct Faculty - 2006-2011
- Taught Information Systems courses in the evenings to undergrad students.
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- Courses such as Linux OS basics, Linux shell programming, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows OS
- Education
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Roosevelt University - Chicago, IL
B.S. Computer Science
Minor: Mathematics
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Northwestern University - Evanston, IL
M.S. Information Systems
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DePaul University - Chicago, IL
M.S. Network Security/Network Engineering
- Publications and Projects
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- Project paper: A Cloud
Native Security Lab
- Open Source project contributor on the Peirates, a Kubernetes penetration testing tool.
- Ran the 2023 BruCon 0x0F Capture the Flag contest in Mechelen, Belgium.