Elliot Kendall
Security, Systems, and Software Engineer
Accomplishments
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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
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Used chef to automate deployment and management of a complex stack
of systems and applications across multiple environments
- 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.
- 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
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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, and 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
Skills
Technologies
Apache,
MySQL,
Chef,
ISC BIND,
ISC DHCP, NFS,
Zabbix,
git,
Subversion,
Shibboleth,
IBM QRadar SIEM,
F5 Networks BigIP,
Atlassian
Confluence,
Hannon Hill Cascade Server,
SSL/TLS/
X.509 PKI,
SNMP,
NetFlow,
web services,
Snort,
Nessus,
tcpdump,
Wireshark,
Kismet,
Metasploit,
Burp Proxy,
The Sleuth Kit,
iptables,
John the Ripper
Programming
- Highly skilled with PHP, SQL, and Bourne shell
- Moderate skill with Python and Java
- Basic skill with Ruby, Groovy, Perl, C, Javascript, XSLT, and Scheme
Operating Systems
- Highly skilled with RedHat and Debian/Ubuntu Linux
- Moderate skill with macOS and Solaris
- Basic skill with Windows and Cisco IOS
Employment History
2008-2012, 2014-
2012-2014
2004-2008
Professional Development
Member 2006-2008, 2011-2012, 2014-. Contributed to federal cases, maintained wiki
software, wrote automatic Snort rule generator.
Education
B.A. in Computer Science, English Language and Literature
Graduated Magna Cum Laude, May 2004