Alexander Bender
Vice President, Cyber Defense at Citizens
Atlanta Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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SeniorAlexander Bender is a cyber defense leader and versatile technical architect with eight years of experience building secure, resilient cloud-native and distributed systems. Currently VP of Cyber Defense at Citizens, he blends hands-on SRE and Kubernetes expertise with enterprise security strategy, having previously led container security and penetration testing initiatives at Optiv and designed resilient storage and blockchain infrastructure at Storj. His background spans Linux operations, DevOps automation, and large-scale observability (Elasticsearch/ELK), giving him a rare mix of offensive security, platform engineering, and incident readiness. Based in Atlanta, he’s as comfortable lifting 10G fiber and data center hardware as he is designing IaC and container security policies—an operator who bridges tactical engineering work with executive cyber risk decisions.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (3)
hugo-theme7
netlify7
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
storj/blog
Oct 2018 - Nov 2018
Company blog, built with Hugo and hosted on Netlify
Contributions:12 commits in 1 month
hugohostednetlifyhugo-themecompany-blog
storj/ios-libstorj
Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:1 commit in 1 day
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