Adam Cole
Chief Information Security Officer
Indiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Cole is a Chief Information Security Officer with 10 years of hands-on cybersecurity and security operations leadership, currently shaping security strategy at Fountain Life while co-running ExtraSecurity. He blends practical cloud-native tooling (Terraform, AWS, Python, NodeJS) with deep regulatory expertise across HIPAA, GDPR, FedRAMP, and PCI-DSS to build auditable, compliant programs. Adam is known for translating technical complexity into accessible guidance—frequently speaking and teaching as a Lead Adjunct Professor—to drive organization-wide security awareness. He has a track record of reducing dwell time and improving detection and response through playbooks, SIEM tuning, and engineered forensic processes. His background ranges from field security and corrections to building multi-account AWS environments, giving him a rare operational empathy for both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Colleagues rely on his combination of tactical execution, mentorship, and clear communication to rapidly mature security posture.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering at Free Code CampInformation Assurance and Security Computer Science, Information Assurance and Security Computer Science at Capella UniversityColumbus East High SchoolAssociate's degree Criminal Justice/Police Science, Associate's degree Criminal Justice/Police Science at Ivy Tech Community College
English, Spanish, Ukrainian
Github Skills (147)
exponential-backoff10
sublime10
phishing-detection10
alpha9
spark-ml9
converting9
axios9
fetch-api9
attempt9
aws-xray9
stdout9
phishing9
api8
pipeline8
lambda-functions8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
indigocarmen/Hello-World
Apr 2016 - Sep 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 6 months
beginning
lifeomic/foundation-xml-fnv
Oct 2020 - Jun 2021
Docker image for converting FoundationOne XML reports into a comma delimited file used for processing by LifeOmic for processing fusion variants.
Contributions:3 reviews, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 8 months
reportsdocker-imagedelimitedxmldocker
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