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New York, Ny, Us

New York, New York, Us

Building systems to aid in detection, prevention, and prosecution of different forms of crypto and non-crypto scams, violence, and illicit activity (e.g. pump and dumps, money laundering, pig butchering + romance scams, contract exploits) and their participants by analyzing social, on-chain, off-chain, and market data.

• Online reputation management system for persistent global identity. Uses two-way transparency along with quantifiable and qualifiable data collection about your life so that you can build reputation and credit, as well as perform regressions on your lifestream. NYU-ITP thesis. http://galapag.us/ and blog @ http://blog.benturner.com/category/reputation/• node.js/express.js server behind Varnish and Nginx, Redis and MongoDB for data, jQuery, Angular.js for front-end. Grunt, Bower workflow. Mocha & QUnit tests.• Re-written into Django w/ PostgreSQL.

New York, Ny, Us

• Replicated S3 media assets to IPFS via NFT.Storage.• Set up data engineering infrastructure, data warehouse/lake, and analytics for the company using Terraform, dbt, & AWS.• Migrated internal userbase from QuickSight to Looker by addressing use cases for bizops (daily revenue dashboard), fraud, and marketing.• Pipelined data from Google Analytics (working with Adswerve), SimonData, and Cloudflare.• Improved documentation for hiring interview test questions and worked with summer intern class.• Optimized heaviest checkout/marketplace DB calls as well as added comprehensive unit testing on order process.

New York, Ny, Us

• Primary leader for efforts to collect data from the deep and dark web and normalize it for our data pipeline.• Built multiple collections systems that scaled up to thousands of data sources, and I built them with security in mind.• Hired, trained, and managed talent, helping them become proficient in our team's and department's niche industry.• Switched between being an IC and a manager in order to suit the needs of what the company required the most at the time.• Established policies for the department relating to quality of software and security: SOC 2 Type II compliance, ADRs, both senior and non-senior engineer working groups.• Created initial versions of systems for collecting data on credit card fraud, ransomware, and CVE prioritization.• Set up initial pipeline and analytical tools for the company's data engineering and analysis needs.• Developed long-term strategic documents for the department.• Set up technical writing component in the department through hiring a tech writer and transitioning external documentation to a better solution.

New York, Ny, Us

• Created a career path for the engineering department based on Camille Fournier's career ladder.• Set up a FinOps group to reduce cloud costs through resource optimization, deprecation or replacement of costly components, and giving teams the tools needed for them to take responsibility for their own costs.• Scaled up hiring pipeline changes from former team to the entire department.• Conducted skip-level 1-on-1s as well as 1-on-1s with the managers I managed.

New York, Ny, Us

• Managed the team responsible for collecting all of Flashpoint's data from the deep and dark web.• Architected, prototyped, and hardened multiple applications enabling Flashpoint to collect at scale.• Overhauled hiring pipeline, onboarding materials, internship program to create a team that emphasized cross-training, incident management, and easy maintenance through non-overly clever software.• Wrote project plan toolkit documentation for product and engineering.

New York, Ny, Us

Built applications to collect data posted by threat actors relating to terrorism, hacking, credit card fraud, insider threats, retail fraud, etc.

New York, Ny, Us

• User-facing features for clip collections (brand channels, groups, albums, portfolios).• Implementation of categories section redesign.• Architected back-end classes, objects, schemata for new onboarding process.• Refactored and implemented comprehensive unit tests for privacy and permission checks for clips, collections, blocking, following, messaging, forums.• XSS, CSRF, IDOR, fuzzing, Burp/Kali security debugging from HackerOne reports.• PHP, MySQL, memcached, jQuery/MooTools, SASS, CasperJS, Mocha, PHPUnit, Python.• 130+ issues closed, 25k+ LOC added, 13k+ deleted.

New York, Ny, Us

• Cryptstagram. Primary developer for Express.js/jQuery/EC2/S3 tool combining Instagram-like glitch filters with steganographic encryption of messages. Covered on Laughing Squid, PSFK, and Wired Design blog. http://cryptstagram.com/• GE Transportation redesign. Back-end developer for PHP/Drupal-based Acquia-hosted site. http://www.getransportation.com/• Cinder web site redesign. Primary developer for Django/Bootstrap/EC2/Grunt site. Doxygen for Cinder documentation. http://www.libcinder.org/• Custom Wordpress build for Projects for All. Custom theming, EC2 build behind Varnish. http://www.projectsforall.org/• Python script & imagemagick to glitch The Bosco photobooth images for The Barbarian Group & AOL at SXSW. http://www.thebos.co/p/8BHRM6• Demo for IBM BlueMix using Sifteo cubes and the Sifteo API.• PHP/Slim framework API server on RHEL for a Clinique mobile app and integration of iOS 7 mobile app ObjC calls to API JSON endpoints, PHPUnit tests for stability.• Prototyped an Android app using Qualcomm Vuforia to display via a cellphone’s camera screen CMS-served content onto detected augmented reality shapes (billboards, print ads).• Devops and bug-fixing via Github & Pivotal Tracker for client projects in Rails such as Sauza 901 Tequila, Sauza US, Hornitos Tequila, and The Kitchen.

Austin, Texas, Us

• Built express.js front-end business intel tool utilizing Python/Scrapy/Pattern/MongoDB/celery to scrape 1k+ online retailers and brands for existing chat systems, third-party tracking/monetization systems, and product databases.• Python with Bing and Google APIs to weigh true URLs belonging to brand names.• Flask to serve up Pattern-crawled results passed into ElasticSearch.

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• Devops, code fixes, and feature builds for custom Etherpad-based script-writing software, using jQuery, node.js, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and some CoffeeScript.• Set up local Ubuntu server box for Github-cloned Etherpad custom code for daily script production.• Managed code updates and administrative maintenance for three testing servers.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

• Team lead, conducted training for new team members, improved standard operating procedures and battle rhythms, maintained team skills.• Led 5-person 24/7 operational team providing situational awareness, breaking news, and social media trend analysis for the Department of Homeland Security's National Operations Center.• Provided information from social media (individuals, local/county/state response, local media) on natural disasters, terrorism incidents, international incidents, public safety, etc. to federal-level disaster response, police/fire/EMS, intelligence agencies, and federal watchdesks.• Found relevant information via TweetDeck, Twitter search, RSS feeds, local blogs and news sites, blog comments, foreign media via translation tools, anonymous Mexican media for border violence issues, etc.• Built prototype PHP/AJAX dashboard with MySQL database backend for form-style report entry, with reports geolocated onto Google Maps; included searches, Twitter API pulls.Instituted quality control program from scratch for reporting, with monthly statistical analysis report and error log for 6 analysts.• Provided open-source social media coverage on key events including the Haiti earthquake, 2010 Vancouver Olympics, and the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Global Development Alternatives: public-private partnerships. Contracted through Development Alternatives, Inc.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

• Top Secret/SCI clearance.• Connected equipment in varying signals environments with integrated global intelligence networks; expertise in radio wave theory and satellite connectivity.• Analysis of U.S. foreign policy, terrorist ideology and networks, and counter-terrorist/political policy of Middle Eastern governments and organizations.• Engaged in foot patrols and force protection missions with Special Forces teams, participated in targeted raids, trained with Iraqi soldiers in Iraqi dialect and basic combat maneuvers.• Supervisor for 5th Special Forces Group's intelligence administrative duties, trained coworkers up for their first deployment to Iraq; resolved 90% of unit's clearance issues in 4 months.• Instructor, two iterations of basic combat course for Special Forces support personnel. Convoy operations, small-arms, crew-served weapons.• Army Physical Fitness Badge for excellence in physical training regiment.

• Six years experience trading NASDAQ/NYSE/AMEX equities.• Generated 400% profit from short-term trading of NASDAQ/NYSE/AMEX equities using technical analysis of charts, corporate SEC filing analysis, and research into emerging technology.• Developed investment blends and trading strategies through political economic study, market sector analysis, and knowledge of popular technology and Internet trends.

• Created an award-winning, well-trafficked web site with extensive underlying mySQL database integration via PHP, dHTML, Ajax, and external APIs, linking over ten years of over 300MB of data together.• Have published online close to 350 essays primarily about society, politics, the stock market, war, love, education, and gadgetry.• Over 11 years of experience in design, programming, and database integration in a web site environment.• Awards for benturner.com: winner of the Project Cool Site of the Day. (10/98) Reviewed in The Net magazine. (6/97)

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• Attracted over 20 new clients as head designer of original designs from concept to finish, integrating database infrastructure, administrative back-end, and client vision and revisions.• Selected clients: fabGORGON (a New York/Philadelphia advertising firm), CellChoice (a Philips Electronics cell phone promotion), Blue Ball Philadelphia, Flash Flood Productions (radio promotion production, http://www.flashfloodinc.com/), Ataraxian Access (http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Rhodes/6193/), Austin Powers Official Collector's Club.

Mps, Interactive Telecommunications Program

Ms, Foreign Service

Aa, Modern Standard Arabic

Ba, Classics

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