Contact:

resume2024@anselcomputers.com

Seeking:

• IC or management leadership role in security or reliability engineering

• Working from Raleigh, NC

Professional Skills:

Strategic Leadership

• Developing the right high-impact long-term programs and systems

• Building and executing multi-year technical roadmaps

Dependability

• Frequent point of contact for urgent, sensitive, and high-impact projects

• Balancing tradeoffs to ensure all business goals are met

Deep technical expertise

• Diverse experience designing, building, and operating large-scale and security-sensitive systems

Patents and Publications:

US Patent

• US 9,483,473 - "High availability architecture for a cloud-based concurrent-access collaboration platform"

2014 Silicon Errors in Logic - System Effects (SELSE)

• "Experiences in Developing and Evaluating a Low-Cost Soft-Error-Tolerant Multicore Processor"

Volunteer:

DarkNet Team Lead : 2016 - 2021

• Led a team of volunteers to build a DEF CON Black Badge contest that emphasizes collaboration and education as much as competition

• Developed a community environment to encourage repeat participants and helped grow the community to over 1,000 annual participants

Education:

Duke University: Class of 2011

Bachelor of Science in Engineering

• Electrical and Computer Engineering

Bachelor of Science

• Computer Science

Relevant Work Experience:

Twitch (Amazon)

Sr. Manager - Security Engineering: February 2021 - Present

• Managed Twitch's exposure to public software vulnerabilities by coaching a team of 5 in building:

  • Repeatable and scalable response procedures

  • Automatic inventory collection across ~3,000 AWS accounts

  • Trust across the organization through well-crafted, data-driven requests for patching

• Enabled data-driven incident response by aggregating 100TB/day of logs from ~3,000 AWS accounts in Splunk, scaling 50x in my time

• Built a research and discovery team to collect data and build tools to reinforce and simplify Twitch executive's understanding of Twitch's threat model

• Provided ~1,000 engineers with Tier 1 remote access to production

Sr. Security Engineer: June 2018 - February 2021

• Designed a highly-scalable, multi-account vulnerability scanning system for AWS resources (1,000s of accounts, 100,000s of resources), and established data-driven security at Twitch

• Developed tactical fixes for urgent, high-impact business needs and followed up with strategic long-term solutions, including a secure, multi-tenant system for allowing third-party workers access to highly sensitive data

• Worked directly with Twitch executives to assess, manage, and accept security risk caused by proposed business decisions, including building a repeatable process for teammates to follow

Box

Sr. Site Reliability Engineer: May 2013 - June 2018

• Built centralized secrets management infrastructure and managed the multi-year roadmap for comprehensive integration across the entire Box technical stack

• Released and evangelized Secure ChatOps design and implementation through presentations at DevOpsDays and Velocity

• Led a team of inexperienced developers in creating an extremely reliable, custom-routed, WebSocket load balancer/high-availability system with 100% availability since launch (4 years) - US 9,483,473

• Advised teams working on fundamental redesigns of Box’s architecture to ensure new systems would be operationally sound, including the move from bare metal to Kubernetes

• Led the response for many high-severity incidents, often coordinating across multiple development teams; responsible for the entire Box infrastructure

NetApp

Systems Architect: January 2012 - April 2013

• Integral member of the team developing high-visibility converged infrastructure reference solutions (FlexPod) in response to customer needs, including personally building comprehensive deployment automation and support-focused validation tooling