Elliot Kendall
Systems, Security, and Software Engineer
Accomplishments
- Responsible for more than 50 production UNIX machines,
including a 10,000-user email system
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Developed and operated custom security systems for vulnerability
scanning and reporting, network traffic analysis, compromised
account detection, and DMCA complaint automation
- Designed and helped implement a high availability, scaleable
email architecture capable of withstanding the loss of an entire
data center
- Designed, implemented, and maintained a highly available web
hosting environment for critical sites and applications
- Implemented enterprise web single sign-on with CoSign and Shibboleth, and
reconfigured and modified web applications to use SSO
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Developed policies, delivered presentations and wrote documentation
to promote institutional security. One creative technique coincided
with a 70% reduction in infections.
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Performed original security research - discovered and reported
vulnerabilities in products from companies including Cisco, Aruba,
and Brocade
- Wrote a suite of switch and
router management utilities to simplify network
admininistration
- Designed and implemented an automated file deployment system
using Subversion
and rsync
- Designed and implemented a secure server access model based on
SSH keys and proxying
Skills
Technologies
Apache,
Tomcat,
MySQL,
sendmail,
Courier MTA,
Perdition,
ISC BIND,
ISC DHCP, NFS,
Zabbix,
OpenLDAP,
Subversion,
Shibboleth,
CoSign,
F5 Networks BigIP,
Atlassian
Confluence,
Hannon Hill Cascade Server,
Wordpress,
SSL/TLS/
X.509 PKI,
SNMP,
NetFlow,
web services,
Snort,
Nessus,
tcptump,
Wireshark,
Kismet,
Metasploit,
WebScarab,
The Sleuth Kit,
iptables,
John the Ripper
Programming
Significant experience with PHP, SQL, Bourne shell, Python,
and Java
Some experience with Perl, C, Javascript, XSLT, and Scheme
Operating Systems
Significant experience with RedHat Linux, Debian/Ubuntu, and
Solaris
Some experience with Mac OS X, Windows, Cisco IOS, and Gentoo
Linux
Employment History
Professional Development
Member 2006-2008. Contributed to federal cases, maintained wiki
software, wrote automatic Snort rule generator.
Member 2007-2008. Led development of web search security tool.
Education
B.A. in Computer Science, English Language and Literature
Graduated Magna Cum Laude, May 2004