Josh Patterson
Business Development Consultant at Tier3MD
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Patterson is a seasoned technology leader and Chief Technology Officer in Livonia, Michigan, who blends hands-on infrastructure engineering with strategic IT leadership. As CTO at Universal Logistics and former CIO at Suburban Automotive, he led large-scale WAN redesigns, data center-to-cloud migrations, disaster-recovery hardening, and SOC2 readiness while aligning vendor strategy and budgets to business objectives. He reorganized and mentored teams into focused units (security, support, application development) to boost efficiency and delivery, and routinely translates executive priorities into actionable technical roadmaps. An active DevOps contributor, he has improved deployment and patch-scheduling workflows for the well-known Security Onion platform, reflecting a practical security-first mindset that informs both architecture and operations.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
University of Texas at San Antonio
English
Github Skills (12)
network-configuration10
bash10
dockers9
devops9
dockerce9
docker9
saltstack8
intrusion-detection7
security-scan7
security7
securitytxt7
threat-hunting6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Security-Onion-Solutions/securityonion
Oct 2019 - Jan 2023
Security Onion is a free and open platform for threat hunting, enterprise security monitoring, and log management. It includes our own interfaces for alerting, dashboards, hunting, PCAP, detections, and case management. It also includes other tools such as osquery, CyberChef, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Suricata, and Zeek.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 268 reviews, 2618 commits in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Josh's commits indicate involvement in maintaining and improving the Security Onion platform. They made quality of life changes by populating the hostname instead of localhost in the set hostname dialog box, as well as changes to address two bugs. The user also implemented new OS patch scheduling options to the network install script. The code changes primarily involve modifications to the bash shell scripts responsible for setting up and configuring the network, including updates related to Docker and potentially SaltStack configurations.
case-managementkibanalogstashopen-platformzeek
m0duspwnens/securityonion-saltstack
Oct 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:60 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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