Conor Quinlan

Security Engineer @Cyera

NY, US

Cloud-first security engineer leading automation, vulnerability management, and incident-response tooling across Cyera’s multi-cloud platform. I design, build, and run “security-as-a-service” systems that compress triage cycles from hours to minutes, drive secure-by-default development, and free analysts for higher-value work.Key Outcomes & Highlights- SecEng Event Gateway (GCP, serverless): Architected a central event bus and orchestration layer that ingests, normalizes, and routes signals from tools like SentinelOne, Upwind, Snyk, Cloudflare, and Cyera. Adds enrichment/correlation, deduping, idempotent retries with DLQs, and fan-out to Slack, Jira, and BigQuery; powering auto-ticketing and AI summaries while slashing hand-off latency and alert noise- Vulnerability Management Pipeline – Built a GitHub Actions workflow that combines Snyk, Upwind, and CIS/OWASP policies. Filters by severity & fixability, auto-groups by micro-service, opens PRs, and pings owners in Slack—shrinking CVE triage from ~1 hr/week to < 2 min per finding- Spectre Secret-Scanning Suite – Created a TruffleHog-powered engine that resurrects deleted Git history, scans, and auto-seals exposed keys. Detected and remediated 95 % of secret-leak incidents across mono-repos- Log Ingestion Pipeline (AWS, near real-time): Built our log-ingestion pipeline to a serverless AWS stack (Okta Event Hooks → API Gateway + Lambda → SQS → Lambda → Kinesis Firehose → S3 in NDJSON with KMS + partitioning), delivering ≤3-minute alerting and Athena/Glue-ready datasets; DLQs + CloudWatch alarms and S3 tiering → Glacier for reliability and cost control- Obsidian: CI/CD-Aware Nuclei Wrapper – Integrated tech-stack detection, branch-aware policies, and FP suppression to keep pipelines fast and secure- Team Enablement & Mentorship – Designed the Security Eng monorepo, Jira workspace, and onboarding playbooks; mentored six interns and drove cross-team adoption of self-service security tools.

University of Denver

Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science

Bellevue High School

High School Diploma