Tyrone Travis

About Tyrone Travis

An expert security engineer with a passion for analyzing vulnerabilities and exploit code.

Experience

1. Senior Security Engineer

   T-Mobile

   May 2024 — Present · Bellevue, WA, US

   Built custom LLM assistants for Detection Engineering, functioning as an autonomous security agent to answer DE questions, generate detection use cases, and expand on threat intel impacts—saving 100+ engineering hours/month. Deployed AI-powered security tooling integrated into legacy workflows; reduced false positives, accelerated triage by 25%, and expanded hunting capabilities. Automated tuning request enrichment via AI, improving SOC-DE coordination and closing tickets faster. Created an AI-powered detection documentation system, reducing doc creation time from hours to minutes and standardizing compliance outputs. Integrated detection-as-code into CI/CD pipelines with Identity Access Management (IAM) policy enforcement.

Education

• Bellevue College

  Associate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.), Network and System Administration/Administrator

  2011 — 2013

• Bellevue College

  Bachelor of Applied Science (B.S.), Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance

  2014 — 2018

Skills

• Red Hat Linux
• Networking
• Ubuntu
• Virtual Private Network (Vpn)
• Sql
• Linux
• Systems Analysis
• Computer Hardware
• Voice Over Ip (Voip)
• Internet Protocol Suite (Tcp/Ip)
• Firewalls
• Kali Linux
• Cisco Routers
• Debian
• Metasploit
• Wireless Technologies
• Tcpdump
• Backtrack
• Microsoft Servers
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Public Speaking
• Internet Information Services (Iis)
• Network Security
• Microsoft Office
• Cisco Vpn
• Oscp
• Cisco Ios
• System Hardening