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Senior Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and DevOps automation. Designing and maintaining critical vulnerability intelligence infrastructure and services that protect 65% of the Fortune 500. Experience in creating / maintaining microservices, APIs, and CICD build pipelines.

PythonJenkinsgitLinuxDockerAWSVMWareKubernetesSQLDynamoDBNessusVulnerability Analysis

Work History

Company	Position	Period	Location
Tenable	Senior Software Engineer	June 2019 - Present	USA
Sr. Software Engineer within the Research Engineering group responsible for Vulnerability Intelligence and internal infrastructure for Tenable Research. Develop and maintain distributed microservices to generate vulnerability content / metadata for Tenable products while utilizing a combination of Kubernetes, Kafka, custom Flask APIs, and Jenkins tooling. Design and optimize distributed systems for scalability and performance, balancing runtime efficiency, memory footprint, disk utilization, and data consistency. Lead effort to overhaul automated automated testing and release system using Python application run via Jenkins, EC2, and VMware on premise infrastructure, to reduce time to release by 50%. Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for the Tenable Research organization, leveraging custom Python build applications in Jenkins to enhance automation and ensure a strong focus on product quality. Develop UI in Vue JavaScript and Python backend to help Tenable Security Researchers auto-create Vulnerability coverage data based on form input and web scraping. Respond to issues and troubleshoot production infrastructure and software problems in a high pressure environment.
Tenable	Software / Research Engineer	August 2017 - June 2019	USA
Developed plugins and libraries for the Nessus Vulnerability Scanner using the NASL programming language. Wrote code that deals with authentication to services / protocols like SSH, Oracle Database, and SMB that is released to customers through the Nessus feed. Developed SSH rate limiting functionality in Nessus deployed to thousands of customer systems to detect specific networking devices. Handled customer escalations to investigate problems with Nessus plugins and provide fixes.
Tenable	Research Engineer QA	January 2013 - August 2017	USA
Worked as a member of the research team for the Nessus Vulnerability Scanner. Performed code review and testing. From 2016-2017 performed as lead engineer responsible for initial design and implementation of CI/CD automation for Nessus Plugins. Researched and tested integration of Nessus plugins with third party products/APIs including MDM systems, and Patch management tools Maintained Microsoft Patch Tuesday lab environment and SCCM configuration (SCCM, PowerShell, Python).
Perdue Farms	Information Security Intern	May 2011 - December 2012	USA
Worked as a member of the Information Security team.