Adam Polkosnik [old]
VA, United States
Summary
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SeniorAdam Polkosnik is a seasoned information security professional with 12+ years focused on incident response, malware analysis, reverse engineering, and automation across large, high-stakes financial environments. Currently a Senior ICAM Engineer at the Federal Reserve Board, he has a deep operational background building malware repositories, automated extraction pipelines, IDS signature development, and remote incident response capabilities for multiple Federal Reserve institutions. His open-source contributions to CRITs show hands-on backend work improving threat intelligence tooling and hardening LDAP/security configurations. Known for connecting disparate security systems into coherent analysis workflows, he combines low-level technical fluency with pragmatic process design. Based in the Greater Richmond region, Adam brings decades of systems administration roots to modern threat hunting and digital forensics, and has a wry sense of humor reflected in his GitHub bio.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (9)
configuration-management10
error-handling10
python10
django10
security9
template-engine9
templater9
template-tags9
ldap9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
crits/crits
Aug 2014 - Oct 2016
CRITs - Collaborative Research Into Threats
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:296 commits, 102 PRs, 218 comments in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the functionality of the CRITs application. Their contributions included fixing linking issues, whitespace problems in subject lines, and addressing exceptions related to configuration options. They also added and modified LDAP-related configurations and incorporated support for a new "bind_dn" setting, enhancing the security features of the application. Furthermore, they updated templates, fixed quote errors and improved the robustness of the application by addressing various errors.
securitycollaborative-researchcybersecuritycollaborativethreats
TheDr1ver/crits_services
Dec 2014 - Aug 2016
Contributions:141 commits in 1 year 8 months
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