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United States

Technical leader and engineering architect for the world-class Threat Research organization. Focused on building scalable, resilient infrastructure and tooling for the unique needs of researchers, analysts and engineers. Unrivaled dedication to driving maturation and automation to research engineering. Formalized and lead a cross-functional software engineering and SRE team that builds and maintains complex tools and underlying infrastructure for Threat Research. Our team is collectively responsible for providing the research platforms and services that power the foundation of Proofpoint TAP, Emerging Threats, and TAP sandboxing products. Partner with engineering and operations leadership to advise on new technology and provide strategic vision. Established numerous technical standards and workflows for safely conducting research on malicious documents and artifacts.

United States

• Lead Engineering and Operations for the Threat Research organization.• Provide technical and thought leadership across Site Reliability Engineering and Software Engineering Development teams to deliver highly available on‑premise and customer‑facing cloud solutions while reducing time to delivery and improving operational efficiency and reliability.• Developed a containerized, scalable IDS ruleset QA environment that reduced time‑to‑release by 90%.• Responsible for Threat Research infrastructure ‑ including computational hybrid‑cloud detection platforms, observability and enterprise storage architecture.• Establish technical, security, and process standards across the Threat Research organization.• Work with Engineering leadership to identify and prioritize projects and strategy.• Serve as the organizational security lead and liaison to the Global Information Security group.

United States

• Architect and implemented a petabyte‑scale, multi‑tier malware artifact storage repository capable of warehousing 5B+ files with millisecond latency.• Orchestrated the operational infrastructure and network integration for the Emerging Threats acquisition, comprising of hundreds of on‑prem systems, AWS cloud environment, and malware research lab.• Migrated bare‑metal event processing pipelines to containerized workflows to enable on‑demand scaling while providing a significant reduction of idle compute resources.• Created framework for automated system provisioning and lifecycle management reducing operational overhead by 75%.

Lafayette, Indiana

• Grew the operations and platform infrastructure of an early start‑up and scaled to support $4MM of annual revenue leading to a $40MM acquisition.• Directed data center operations, platform tooling, and storage infrastructure responsible for the detonation and processing 500K+ unique malware samples daily.• Led initiatives for design and implementation of automated malware sample sandboxing, network packet capture analysis processing and threat analysis observability with a key focus on efficacy in a rapidly evolving threat landscape.• Designed a customer‑facing download platform that serviced 1MM+ daily requests and 750TB of monthly traffic.• Implemented platform and host‑level monitoring as well as introduced on‑call rotation that reduced customer‑visible incident volumes by 40%.• Drove strategic operational efforts during exponential company growth ‑ including vulnerability assessment and remediation process implementation, cloud technology strategy, and change‑control standard development.

West Lafayette, In

• Lead administrator on multiple 750+ node research computational clusters running PBS Pro and Condor.• Proposed tooling and process enhancements to significantly reduce job failures and streamline failed component replacement.• Assisted in overhaul of a multi‑campus support ticket system, including implementation of automated service and component failure notifications.• Provided training to auxiliary campus staff focusing on maintaining high‑availability and security of customer‑facing systems.

United States

• Designed the infrastructure that enabled automated TeamSpeak and Ventrilo server provisioning in multiple geographic regions.• Served as the technical lead for the implementation and launch of a new game server service offering that drove a 15% increase in revenue.• Provided tier‑3 support for voice and game server customers and established company‑wide SLA standards and escalation procedures directly resulting in a 10% customer retention increase.