Technologist with a wide variety of experience and a desire for meaningful hands-on work. Currently a Senior Resident Engineer at Palo Alto Networks specializing in Cortex XSOAR & XSIAM.

I build playbooks, automations, and integrations that help security teams respond to threats faster and more efficiently. Also, sometimes we get silly and automate non security related things, like giving out "Bravo" recognition. Fluent in English & Polish.

Education: BS in Business Information Systems - Illinois State University (May 2015)

Accomplishments: President's Plate Award Winner (Discover), Early Career Achievement Award Winner (Illinois State University)

Other security professionals, automation enthusiasts, tinkerers, and mechanical engineers to help me with a side project. Oh, and Travis Rice.

F1 Points Tracker LED Board - Created a LED display that showed the top 5 F1 championship contenders at that moment.

Home Lab - Building out my home lab, ask me about it!

Shipment Management System - Developed a POC CRUD system via Django for a small logistics company

November 2022 - Present
• Actively developing automations, integrations, and playbooks on XSOAR & XSIAM platforms
• Developing XQL queries for correlation rules, widgets, etc.
• Troubleshooting and maintaining XSOAR/XSIAM platforms
• Documenting custom automations, integrations, and playbooks
• Communicating with various levels of customer organizations as the Palo Alto Networks SME
• Ideating use cases for customers based on their automation maturity and risk tolerance

October 2021 - October 2022
• Developed automations, integrations, and playbooks for Cybersecurity teams using XSOAR
• Wrote custom Jira integration since marketplace version wouldn't work with on-prem instance
• Managed infrastructure of XSOAR platform deployed on AWS
• Worked with customers, demoing features, and communicating with Product Owners
• Sought out new automation opportunities within team processes

October 2019 - October 2021
• Coached two delivery teams within Cybersecurity through the agile way of working
• Built Jira Dashboards to drive transparency, metrics, and alignment
• Worked closely with Product Owners & Product Managers to write initiatives, features, and user stories
• Ran workshops to align KRIs, define mission statements, create product roadmaps, teach Jira

May 2017 - October 2019
• Scaled technology internship program from 42 hires to over 70 in 2 years
• Coached & mentored interns throughout summer internships
• Campus team lead for WorkDay ATS, Talent Gather, and HackerRank implementations

May 2015 - May 2017
• Gathered requirements for new features from stakeholders and users
• Developed small UI features using HTML, CSS, and AngularJS
• Led the adoption of using OneDrive/Office365 for the team