John Sabo Email & Phone Number

Phoenix, Az, Us

London, England, Gb

Scottsdale, Az, Us

• Developed tool suites addressing middleware application issues, data management, and migration challenges, while expanding tool functionality across diverse Security Operations Center (SOC) platforms such as EDR, XDR, SOAR, MDR, DLP, SIEM, and case management systems.• Collaborated seamlessly with subject matter experts and Fortune 100 partners to conceive, orchestrate, and execute highly intricate Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) platform deployments.• Delivered personalized professional services to clients, ensuring tailored solutions to meet unique business requirements.• Implemented cutting-edge CI/CD change management strategies, optimizing development cycles across dev, UAT, and prod environments.• Spearheaded the customization of over 100 security, ticketing, database, and service integrations through adept 3rd-party API/client modifications.• Innovated by introducing specialized automation enhancements, incorporating advanced Python asynchronous pipelining into workflow processes.• Collaborated closely with Security Operations Center (SOC) teams to implement automation, significantly reducing analyst workloads.• Achieved a remarkable reduction in analyst workloads—up to 800%—by enhancing true positive detection through improved IOC (indicators) tracking and leveraging detection capabilities to identify latent threats.• Worked 100% from home as a self-starter completing all tasks as needed.

I started Dark Sources Security to provide risk intelligence through the processing of breach data, Creating a risk and intelligence API service to help find and stop the use of the common passwords through raw data and community data. It fuels the full featured Password Scrubber WordPress plugin available to use free for small websites. Created FreeHackReport.com to help show what data hackers actually collect and have on people. All data is present and available for free. Billions of profiles have been gathered. Is your data safe? Find out!

• Orchestrated end-to-end management of IT business processes, marketing, and technical operations, culminating in the successful company sale.• Demonstrated fiscal acumen through budgeting and meticulous stakeholder accountability.• Directed the technical realm and facilitated the company's sale, highlighting adept management skills.• Designed and built a cloud-controlled web server security platform featuring an autonomous AI WAF engine, offering scalable monitoring under any load.• Engineered an on-demand cloud protection network service, delivering a private, safeguarded global CDN within minutes.• Spearheaded pre and post-sales engineering efforts, successfully closing deals with over 1,000 SME clients.• Ensured round-the-clock customer service, fostering client satisfaction and loyalty.• Developed a passive DNS intelligence platform, monitoring a vast network of 192 million domains and approximately 30 billion hosts.• Instituted the industry's first bot automation and abusive network public reverse blacklist, responding dynamically to ongoing client abuse.• Offered public intelligence data feeds for the cybersecurity sector, centered around real-time attack and bot activity.

Tempe, Az, Us

• Designed and implemented GoDaddy’s internal shared hosting web application firewall (WAF) AKA Cerberus, setting a new benchmark for web security standards. Cerberus is still running across all of GD’s hosting environments blocking billions of attacks daily. • Lead the tech side of the Linux Platform Engineering team, orchestrating the flawless hosting of tens of millions of websites across thousands of servers with a keen focus on seamless operations.• Enhanced server platforms through strategic upgrades and automation, systematically boosting operational efficiency and performance optimization.• Spearheaded a transformative initiative in outbound hosting mail systems, ensuring streamlined communication channels and a substantial reduction in spam.• Conducted thorough evaluations of third-party products, implementing tailored solutions to elevate the overall system performance and user experience.• Led specialized project teams dedicated to performance enhancement and reinforced security measures, achieving a fortified hosting environment.• Transitioned into a pivotal role as a Hosting Security Engineer, specializing in security DevOps, and raised security standards within the hosting landscape.• Engineered groundbreaking improvements to outgoing mail systems, significantly curbing outbound spam and enhancing overall user satisfaction.• Elevated the efficiency and security of shared hosting platforms, contributing significantly to a robust and secure hosting infrastructure.• Recognized as an automation security expert, invited as a distinguished speaker at GoDaddy's conference to share valuable insights on automation security practices.• Shared expertise through engaging lectures on security and engineering topics, fostering a culture of knowledge-sharing and collaboration.• Successfully mitigated a widespread service disruption caused by automated botnets, demonstrating proactive problem-solving skills and ensuring uninterrupted service delivery.

• Led the end-to-end management and strategic planning of in-house application development, overseeing the entire lifecycle from conceptualization and feature scoping to technical viability assessments, timelines, milestones, and team assignments.• Implemented and maintained rigorous technical governance standards across the company, ensuring the highest quality in all technological endeavors.• Pioneered the creation and conceptualization of proof of concepts for a multitude of internal web and non-web applications, showcasing innovative thinking and technical expertise.• Engineered a groundbreaking content management system, aggregating celebrity data from 600 sources. This system not only established the most extensive repository of celebrity media but also facilitated detailed profiling, serving as a backend powerhouse for content services and marketing initiatives, generating hundreds of millions of content pages daily.• Designed, developed, and managed high-volume distributed marketing and data collection networks, demonstrating proficiency in handling complex technological infrastructures.• Steered a diverse team of tech professionals, including Managers, Engineers, Administrators, Designers, and Support staff, ensuring seamless workflow and consistently high-quality deliverables.• Orchestrated a technological evolution by migrating to redundant cloud solutions (AWS and Google), enhancing the company's scalability and resilience.• Led a comprehensive automation platform transformation, transitioning from Chef to Puppet 3, subsequently advancing to Puppet 4. Simultaneously, orchestrated a shift in operating systems from Gentoo to CentOS 6 and later 7, optimizing system efficiency and reliability.

Electronics, Video Produtions, Business Computers

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