Shane S. Email & Phone Number

San Antonio, Tx, Us

Serve as a Co host and security SME on the educational non-profit podcast Cyber Judo. Cyber Judos objective is to provide freely available cybersecurity insights, guides, content and tools to organizations trying to improve their security posture as well as advice for passionate individuals breaking into cybersecurity as a career path.

New York, Us

I am proud to have transitioned into the role of Director of Enterprise Architecture at Abacus Group, a globally managed technology and cybersecurity services provider trusted by over 700 firms in the financial services industry. In this capacity, I lead the design and delivery of modern, efficient, and secure applications and systems. Additionally, I serve as a principal architect in the scope of SDLC, secure application design, and artificial intelligence.My responsibilities include developing programs and policies to ensure our systems maintain the highest levels of security, efficiency, and integrity. By focusing on innovative solutions and strategic alignment, I help our organization stay at the forefront of technology and cybersecurity, providing our clients with unparalleled service and protection.

Princeton, New Jersey, Us

Initially founded in 2013 in the heart of New York City, Gotham Security isan Abacus Group company that focuses on providing boutique cybersecurityservices. Gotham Security delivers high-quality penetration testing, maliciousadversary simulation, threat intelligence services, and cybersecurity strategyservices.Our team is comprised of elite white hat hackers, known as the go-to "cyberstrike team." We are not just excellent at red teaming; more importantly,we know how to communicate cybersecurity threats in a practical way toorganizations. We work with a growing number of Fortune 1000 companiesacross all major sectors of business, including multi-billion-dollar hedge funds,major insurance providers, international options trading exchanges, and more.

Princeton, Nj, Us

Responsible for delivering a technology portfolio for our client offerings, internal tools, and development with a focus on SecOps and compliance including but not limited to: ● Microsoft Defender ATP ● Microsoft Sentinal ● Wazuh (OSSEC) ● Legion Scanner ● Spearhead Penetration Testing Automation & Result Quantification ● Dradis ● Veracode IntegrationResponsible for the development and delivery of SecOps products such as Legion and Spearhead to reduce average engagement execution overhead by 50%.Lead research into automated penetration testing leveraging machine learning for adaptive tactics and attacks.

Chicago, Il, Us

Implemented team development processes and served as a mentor to the other developers.Worked with marketing to build machine learning models for analyzing and ranking user engagement data related to push notifications. This included the impact of emoji and slang. The resulting model had a quantitative accuracy of 93%.Built subsequent machine learning models for digesting the highest-ranking notifications, ranking the components that made them perform well and producing new, targeted notifications. The resulting model had a success rate of 70% for generated unique, interpretable notifications. Results tested against users hit target engagement expectations over 80% of the time.Developed and implemented a subsequent pipeline for continuous training on newly scored data.Worked with the Automation and Analytics team to corral, manage and update seriously out of date internal tools written in Ruby.Architected and developed machine learning models for classification of PagerDuty event summaries into noise, non-noise, and possible noise categories. The resulting model reduced event noise by 60%.Developed and implemented a subsequent machine learning model for building associations amount mischaracterized events in PagerDuty leveraging scored results from the anti-noise model.Designed and implemented a pipeline for continuous ingestion of new scored data for both PagerDuty event models.

Assist in developing the team's skills, agile process, and inter-team engineering and operational processes surrounding DealsPlus.com and BlackFriday.fm.Responsible for complete migration of BlackFriday.fm from traditional datacenter to Google Cloud GCE.Heavily leveraged managed instance groups and continuous integration via GitLab to achieve workflows allowing for the extremely rapid scaling of application during BlackFriday rush and rapid re-deployment of code.Responsible for complete migration of DealsPlus.com from traditional datacenter to Google Cloud. The following move to GCE further worked to reduce cost and complexity by utilizing Google Container Environment for deploying PODs of dockerized web services to Kubernetes.

Positioned Steel House Labs as a recognized leader in monitoring and data strategy and implementation.Developed a highly qualified team of experts supported by a platform of tools and processes to multiply the knowledge advantage without incurring excessive overhead costs of traditional employee models.Assisted in the key design and concept elements of Tantalum, a stream-based data acquisition, processing, evaluation, and storage platform.Serve as the company expert on Zenoss, monitoring strategy and DevOps concepts.Assisted clients such as Lookout Inc. and AutoDesk Inc. with overall infrastructure monitoring strategy and implementation resulting in reduced time and cost overhead and decreased time to resolution.