Elliot Kendall
Systems, Security, and Software Engineer

Accomplishments

• Responsible for all production UNIX machines at a top 50 research university, including a 10,000-user email system
• 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
• Developed policies, delivered presentations and wrote documentation to promote institutional security. One creative technique coincided with a 70% reduction in infections.
• Wrote a suite of switch and router management utilities to simplify network admininistration
• Designed and implemented a secure server access model based on SSH keys and proxying
• Performed original security research, discovering and reporting vulnerabilities in products from companies including Cisco, Aruba, and Brocade
• Designed and implemented a technique to take automatic action based on SIEM alerts. Used this technique to solve chronic issue with compromised accounts.
• Designed and implemented a tool to provide centralized reporting and managing of Apple FileVault 2 disk encryption
• Designed and implemented an advanced demographic reporting tool for analyzing data from PhishMe phishing awareness training
• Designed and implemented an automated file deployment system using Subversion and rsync

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