Mark Vlcek Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Member of the Enterprise Security team within the Information Security (InfoSec) organization. Alternate between project work and weekly "goalie" rotations that involve reviewing project design documentation, deployment plans, architecture diagrams, firewall and infrastructure change requests, etc. Consultant for IT teams to ensure secure deployments, configurations, and strategies.Involved in nearly every facet of enterprise security:Endpoint, container, Kubernetes, network, and cloud security, vulnerability management, PKI, IAM, and zero trust.Developed, documented, and deployed a modular, serverless solution to automatically remediate high-priority misconfigurations of cloud resources and notify relevant parties via custom Slack bot. Built using infrastructure as code applied via CI/CD pipeline. Assisted co-workers implement additional auto-remediation capabilities via modular design.Developed vulnerability notification system that alerts configured recipients upon detection of relevant vulnerabilities according to assets defined in a backend database. Many more features planned for future releases...https://github.com/airbnb/vulnture

San Jose, Ca, Us

Member of the Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) within the Information Security (InfoSec) organization. Involved in cloud-related tooling, monitoring, and investigations.Architected and created a 1-click, automated deployment for an AWS security & network traffic logging/monitoring/response platform. Successfully and seamlessly deployed across hundreds of accounts, giving CSIRT/InfoSec some parity of internal logging and response capabilities on the public cloud platform and massively increasing visibility.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Worked on an IT architecture team as a Partner Security Architect (PSA) to ensure that various application and platform teams were complying with InfoSec policies via consultation and application vulnerability scan reviews. Led security architecture reviews, static code analysis scans/reviews, and automated & manual application penetration testing efforts for dozens of applications and teams.Developed an application that automated a significant amount of the process that Partner Security Architects underwent to compile and send out security compliance reports to various stakeholders as part of the overall risk management program, effectively reducing the time the process took from days to just seconds.Helped research, design, and develop ways to standardize and simplify cloud application & platform development/deployment within Cisco. Created reference architectures for various common cloud deployment use cases. Assisted in implementation of DevOps and CI/CD pipeline processes to be used by IT application development teams.

Columbus, Ohio, Us

Staffed the consultant desk in the main computer lab of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and assist any students that may require help with programming in Java and/or using Unix.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Worked closely with the Connected IT Services (CITS) team to optimize the use of products being offered as virtual services.Investigated new and innovative software/technology being offered by partners and used it to implement an application that connected two upcoming large-scale projects to work with one another.

Columbus, Ohio, Us

Staffed the front desk of University Residences to ensure that the building ran efficiently.Assisted residents of University Residences with any questions and problems they had and handled situational alarms.

Bs, Computer Science And Engineering

Master’S Degree, Software Engineering