Michael Butt Email & Phone Number

United States

Mclean, Va, Us

Jersey City, New Jersey, Us

Washington, Dc, Us

Celerium (Formerly NC4), • Software Engineering/DevOpsContinued development on Soltra Cyber Threat Intelligence product STIX 1.x, STIX 2.x, TAXII 1.x, and TAXII 2.x Cyber Threat Intelligence standards• Development on Python/Django application using Django REST Framework (DRF) and MongoDB backend• Created automated build pipeline using tools including Packer, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation, Docker, and Vagrant to generate secure, deployable application images for on-prem and cloud deployments • Migrated application deployment and development environments from CentOS 6.x to 7.x• Created standardized RPM packaging for application and internal dependencies, as well as build infrastructure using Ansible AWX and AWS Automation • Analysis of novel customer issues, from problem identification through resolution, including customer interaction and relationship management• Identified performance and cost optimizations to improve customer satisfaction while reducing cost

El Segundo, Ca, Us

Continuing work on the CTX/Soltra Edge platform, including design, development, documentation, and testing of CTX/Soltra Edge and related systems and infrastructure, continually expanding the adoption, usability, and value of CTI data in a modern security workflow.

Jersey City, Nj, Us

Development of adapters and tools to support customer integration of the STIX/TAXII Threat Intelligence data standards using Soltra products.

Reston, Va, Us

Software/System Engineering - Security Clearance/SSBIo Designed, developed, and implemented web-based mapping application to display multi-faceted geospatial data in a custom web application as part of Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS). o Lead redesign of Ext JS web-based analyst application to enhance user experience and data visualization, resulting in improved analyst productivity. End-user feedback and project success resulted in my visual design toolset becoming the standard mockup and design tools for development team, resulting in improved developer efficiency and customer interactions.o Developed XQuery application for processing and exporting XML and JSON-formatted geospatial data records, integrating with an existing MarkLogic web application.o Designed and developed prototype of exposing DIB data model gathered from distributed systems over Web Feature Service (WFS) interface, which would allow end users to query and interact with data directly in ArcGIS and other standard supporting tools.Technical Leadershipo Provided knowledge transfer and guidance to team members on modern software development practices that are applicable, such as tools, workflows, and techniques for software development and visual design best practices, and recommending acquisition of development and collaboration products based on appropriate justifications to meet customer needs and improve team quality and efficiency. o Used Scrum agile software development methodology to enhance development process and customer interaction, educating team members on the processes required, and the proper use of web-based tools such as Jira.o Provided problem solving assistance in various ares, including application development, web service integration and improvements, performance improvements, Linux, Windows, and general network troubleshooting, metrics, security auditing, version control, collaboration tool integration and administration, and assisting intern projects.

• Administered Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers running Apache, Nginx, MySQL, and Memcache daemons running a Joomla-based legacy CMS, custom PHP, JavaScript, and HTML applications and WordPress.• Improved performance to meet demanding load requirements and ensure optimal customer experiences to improve conversions. Involved identifying, planning, and testing for bottlenecks, and optimizing Apache, MySQL, Nginx, PHP-FPM configurations and improving performance by meeting caching needs, ensuring available workers to handle requests, modifying MySQL storage engines to meet usage patterns, and generally follow industry-standard best practices.• Implemented A/B, multivariate-testing suite to allow SEO optimization experts with tools to test and identify and implement conversion improvements based on statistically valid data.• Modified existing PHP applications to meet design requirements and improve performance.• BASH and Python scripting as necessary to fulfill requirements, such as modifying backup engine configuration, scheduling complex tasks to run as scripts, log reporting, security checks, general system status reports, and other tasks as needed.

Fairfax Station, Us

Multimedia Analysis- Development of video analysis applications to analyze terabytes of captured, previously media - Development of distributed analysis and presentation infrastructure - Creation of TORQUE/OpenPBS cluster to distribute tasks such as metadata extraction, scene detection, video summarization, audio analysis, facial detection, and transcoding to common format across available Linux compute nodes - Integration of Windows Media Server as streaming media server - Development of custom frontend application to provide analysts with a more efficient workflowSystem Administration - Optimization of development toolset and workflow - Configuration and management of necessary developer support tools, including version control and project managementInfrastructure Stabilization - Migration of terabytes of data to stable, redundant distributed storage using GlusterFS distributed file system -Migration of backend web services to stable, redundant, configuration-controlled systems

Herndon, Virginia, Us

Embedded Development- Development on embedded PowerPC Linux platform- Update Linux device driver for ruggedized version of custom PMC deviceSystem Administration - Development of customized Red Hat Enterprise 4 Linux installation - Implemented a Single Sign On (SSO) solution authenticating against Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory - Performed general Linux and Microsoft Windows administration tasks including account management, software installation, troubleshooting, and disaster recovery