Seamus Tuohy
Chief Information Security Officer
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSeamus Tuohy is a seasoned information security leader with twelve years of experience guiding digital security across government, nonprofit, and humanitarian sectors. As Chief Information Security Officer at NGO-ISAC and a Program Analyst at the U.S. Department of State, he combines strategic risk management with hands-on security program governance. His prior roles, including Director of Information Security at Human Rights Watch and Senior Technologist at Internews, reflect a track record of building resilient security programs, advancing threat modeling, risk assessments, and security operations in complex environments. A proactive technologist and open-source contributor, he has strengthened security tooling such as the Viper framework for Python 3 compatibility and document analysis, and expanded MISP modules for robust email and attachment processing with comprehensive unit tests. He holds an MS in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University and a BA in Communications from San Francisco State University, pairing people-focused risk thinking with technical depth. Based in the Washington DC–Baltimore area, he translates complex requirements into auditable, scalable security solutions across sectors.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.A, Communications, B.A, Communications at San Francisco State UniversityM.S., Conflict Analysis and Resolution, M.S., Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University
Github Skills (14)
file-handling10
unit-testing10
email-parsing10
msp10
python10
base649
dependency-management9
threat-intelligence8
pip8
binarydiff8
web-frameworks7
cts7
web-framework7
json7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
viper-framework/viper
Jun 2017 - Oct 2018
Binary analysis and management framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 3 PRs, 5 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Seamus contributed to the Viper framework by addressing Python 3 compatibility issues related to character encoding during signature file processing. They also added support for the `msodde` module to analyze Office documents. Further contributions include updating the project's dependencies and build configuration, specifically focusing on Python 3 and `pip3` usage and streamlining the installation process. Their work suggests a focus on maintaining and extending the framework's functionality.
binary-analysis
MISP/misp-modules
Oct 2016 - Jul 2017
Modules for expansion services, enrichment, import and export in MISP and other tools.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:11 commits, 3 PRs, 9 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Seamus primarily contributed to the email import module for the MISP platform. They implemented features to extract email metadata, including headers, destinations, and attachments. They also added support for unzipping attachments, including password-protected ones, and incorporated URL extraction from HTML bodies. Furthermore, the user created and expanded unit tests to validate the functionality and features implemented.
exportmisppassive-dnsimport-and-exportexpansion
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