Alan Shearer
Sr. Technical Manager Cybersecurity & Operational Technology
College Station, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlan Shearer is a senior technical manager specializing in cybersecurity and operational technology with over 20 years of hands-on experience securing IT and OT environments for utilities, defense, and critical infrastructure. Currently leading OT cybersecurity at Jacobs Engineering, he combines practical network and server administration with architecture-level design, NIST/CIP compliance, and resilience planning. He has a track record of modernizing electric and water SCADA networks, building test environments for safe OT updates, and implementing role-based controls and disaster recovery across hybrid IT/OT stacks. Technically fluent across Cisco, Palo Alto, Fortinet, Nutanix, and VMware, Alan also contributes to open-source systems work—fixing memory and format-security bugs in the Haiku OS—highlighting his low-level debugging chops. Based in College Station, TX, he pairs broad leadership and budgeting experience with a deep practitioner’s skill set, mentoring teams to close the gap between operational continuity and security.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Management and Management Information Systems, Management and Management Information Systems at Sam Houston State University
Github Skills (11)
haiku10
eos10
filesystem10
c-language10
os-development10
system-programming10
cprogramming-language10
operating-system10
eosio10
networking9
debugging9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
haiku/haiku
Jul 2021 - Sep 2021
The Haiku operating system. (Pull requests will be ignored; patches may be sent to https://review.haiku-os.org).
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & System Architect
Back-end Developer & System ArchitectContributions:28 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Alan primarily contributed to fixing bugs and improving the codebase of the Haiku operating system. Their work involved correcting errors related to format security, memory management within various system components, and addressing inconsistencies in the code, such as closing `va_list` correctly. They also updated the system by pulling in commits from upstream projects like FreeBSD and improved the overall structure and stability of core functionalities.
operating-systembeoshaiku
Coldfirex/HaikuNotes
Sep 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
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