CV

Here is my brief CV for educational, career and personal projects. More details can be found on my LinkedIn profile or by soliciting me via email at dasseclab@protonmail.ch

Education

Bachelor’s of Science, Information Security and Assurance. Kennesaw State Univeristy. 2008.

Certifications

SANS Security Essentials (GSEC), 2009 - 2013.

Professional Career

Alphabet (Google) AS15169 - Network Implementation Engineer. 2026 - Current.

Deploying edge and interconnection connectivity; hardware lifecycle management and more (or less). More to come as I get further involved.

Cloudflare AS13335 - Network Deployment Engineer. Hyperscale Infrastructure. 2023 - 2026.

I worked on the deployment of Edge Points of Presence and scaled data centers, interconnecting them with the Cloudflare network and backend infrastructure to serve Cloudflare customers.

Twitter AS13414 - Network Engineer. Edge Network Engineering. 2019 - 2022.

Promoted from Data Center Engineering organization into Network Engineering, focusing on Twitter’s Edge team. Edge Network Engineering includes technical veritcals of IP Transit and Peering, CDN, external Load Balancing and Network Security. Projects have ranged from turning up new peering or transit circuits, IPSec VPNs, ACL and security policies, high-visibility DNS maintenance and creating device routing policies while supporting the operations of same. Promoted to Network Engineer II in 2020 where I continue to work in depth on the above.

Twitter AS13414 - Senior Site Operations in Datacenter Engineering. 2011 - 2019.

Started as SiteOps I in 2011, was responsible for rack-stack, deployment and maintenance of fleet. Promoted to SiteOps II in 2012 leading multisite upgrade resourcing and beginning to undertake data security projects and liasion with audit teams. Grew to Senior in 2014 leading efforts related to data center security, Linux administration, training and product ownership of internal tooling. In 2018, I became a dedicated resource for Backbone Network Engineering for data center and point-of-presence (POP) projects.

LodgeNet Interactive AS65005 - Network Operations Engineer. 2011.

Acted as proactive monitoring arm and point of escalation between Customer Support and Sustaining Engineering teams.

Elavon AS65004 - Compliance Analyst. 2010.

Worked on financial (GLBA, PCI-DSS) compliance projects. Worked on internal security awareness program.

SecureWorks AS65003 - Security Specialist. 2008-2010.

Administered Linux-based IDS/IPS product and performed network security event analysis. Worked with F/OSS tools such as Snort, Wireshark and tcpdump in conjunction with proprietary SIEM tool.

SunTrust Banks AS65002 - Enterprise Technology Risk Management Intern. 2008.

Interned working within IT Security Policy and Governance team; collaborated with technical security teams.

Georgia-Pacific Company AS65001 - Windows Technical Services. 2007 - 2008.

In Windows Technical Services, I worked in an in-house corporate data center performing installation, maintenance and decommission of assest on a Mircosoft Windows platform. As the only WTS team member with Unix/Linux experience, I also assisted the Unix Technical Services team with repairs and maintenance.

Georgia-Pacific Company AS65001 - IT Procurement - 2005 - 2007.

In IT Procurement, I worked on a team purchasing hardware, software, licenses in addition to assiting corporate customers with build specifications and resolving technical questions with orders. Also performed invoice reconcilliation between vendors and AP.

Projects

DKEY - An Antiforensic Data Destruction Tool

Conference Talks

DKEY: Data Destruction At Scale. PhreakNIC 21. 3 - 5 November 2017.

SharkDump: Network Analysys Using tcpdump and Wireshark. PhreakNIC 21. 3 - 5 November 2017.