Summary
Armand Alvarez is a Security Engineer III with a decade of hands-on experience protecting high-value networks and endpoints across finance and critical infrastructure. He combines operational leadership—having led SOC teams and large incident responses in the U.S. Air Force—with practical engineering skills in SIEM, EDR, and vulnerability hunting (Splunk, Security Onion). At JPMorgan Chase and previously in government roles he delivered measurable risk reduction and cost savings, including a $318K annual savings from a monitoring migration and mitigation of a year-old vulnerability. He’s adept at translating technical findings to executives and shaping policy, authoring enterprise security policies aligned to NIST and regulatory requirements. Known as a hacker, coder, creator on GitHub, he pairs curiosity-driven tooling with mission-focused security outcomes. Based in New York, he is pursuing CISSP and cloud credentials to stay ahead of evolving threats and architectures.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Information Technology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Information Technology at Consolacion Community College