Nel D.

About Nel D.

Using divergent thinking to solve complex problems in an effort to make people\'s lives better and more secure through engineering.Current Interests:Informational Security, DevOps, Risk Management, Organizational Scalability and Efficiency, Agile Development, Supply Chain, Sustainable Design Patterns, Triple Entry Bookkeeping, BlockchainTechnical Focus: Infrastructure, Security, Reliability, Unix Based Operating Systems, Agile DevelopmentStrategic Role Skills: Systems Engineer, DevOps, Systems Architect, Security Engineer, Systems AnalystLanguage/Scripting: Bash, Python, Lua, json, yaml, cvsTechnical Skills: Puppet, Chef, K8s, Ansible, Redhat Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Jira-Python, Redis, CVE Vulnerability Mitigation, operations compliance, PCI, FedRamp, Puppet, SSL, Windows, Nessus, Openstack, KVM, Vagrant, Redis, VMware, Chef, Docker, Puppet, Nginx, IPMI, Apache, Kubernetes, Solr, Tomcat, Jetty, Nagios, Git, Jenkins, Node.js, MySql, Bitcoind, Android, Dell, Supermicro, HAproxy, DNSExtra Background Information:Born and raised in the SF Bay Area of California and have traveled to over 10 different countries and 4 different continents.I enjoy snowboarding, windsurfing, and scuba diving.I like mexican food, mixed drinks, and electronic music.

Experience

1. Site Engineer

   CrowdStrike

   Oct 2022 — Present

   Team Size: 3-8, Company Size: 10k. Federal Engineering and Product Security. First year and a half worked on enabling the kubenertes platform as an embedded Federal engineer within the higher regulated environment, supported iams migrations and setup, and did architecture reviews for change requests. Currently, my main responsibility is being the owner and maintainer of the OS hardening baseline cookbook (i.e. STIGS, C.I.S.).

Education

• Concordia University

  Psychology, Buisness, Information Technology

• Diablo Valley College

  Information Technology

• MONTE VISTA HIGH SCHOOL

  High School Diploma