Gustav Akk
Security Engineer at Thrive
Greater St. Louis United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGustav Akk is a security engineer with a decade of experience helping financial institutions strengthen their cyber defenses and resilient infrastructure. He combines hands-on security expertise with cloud architecture, system deployment, and robust network engineering, underpinned by practical scripting in C#, Python, Bash, and PowerShell. In his current role at Thrive, he leads security engineering initiatives that protect complex environments while automating vulnerability remediation across thousands of endpoints. Previously at Jack Henry & Associates, he served as Technical Lead for the Risk Management team, coordinating projects, documenting remediation efforts, performing vulnerability scans with Nessus and Rapid7, and patching over 15,000 devices on Windows and Linux. His background also includes on-prem and cloud infrastructure management, VMware Horizon VDI, and proactive monitoring with Kibana/Elasticsearch, all grounded by a Computer and Information Sciences degree from Missouri State University. Based in Greater St. Louis, he brings leadership, cross-team collaboration, and a results-driven mindset to security engineering in financial services.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Computer and Information Sciences, General, Computer and Information Sciences, General at Missouri State University
English, Russian, German
Github Skills (8)
buster4
docker-image3
jdownloader3
docker2
vnc-client2
docker-container2
novnc2
downloadmanager1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jzohndev/brew-calculator
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 1 branch in 1 day
steesti/PHP-Quiz-Creator
Dec 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 9 days
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