Blair D
Senior Analyst at Mandiant (part of Google Cloud)
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBlair D is a Senior Analyst at Mandiant with 14 years of focused military and cybersecurity experience and a total of 28 years of professional experience spanning naval operations to threat hunting. He transitioned from hands-on roles in the US Navy—where he served as a Cryptologic Technician and Cyber Threat Hunter—to intrusion analysis at CrowdStrike and now defends organizations against APTs at Google Cloud’s Mandiant. Blair holds CEH, CHFI, and CompTIA Linux+ certifications and a BS in Information Technology from Purdue University Global, blending formal education with continuous, practical skill development. Beyond incident response, he contributes to open-source tooling and crypto exchange SDKs—improving type safety and feed handling in well-known projects like Coinbase Pro and ccxt—showing a knack for backend engineering and API reliability. He’s particularly effective at translating operational intelligence into maintainable code and process improvements, making him a strong bridge between blue-team operations and engineering teams.
28 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 Purdue University Global
Github Skills (49)
filesystem10
javascript10
file-management10
btrfs10
python10
cloud-init10
package-management10
api-design10
apidoc10
typescript10
data-serialization10
type-definition10
java10
serialization10
cryptocurrency10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
coinbase/coinbase-pro-trading-toolkit
Mar 2018 - Apr 2018
DEPRECATED — The Coinbase Pro trading toolkit
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:72 commits, 74 PRs, 40 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Blair primarily focused on improving the codebase related to the GDAX (Coinbase Pro) trading toolkit. Their contributions involved fixing typos in the source code and optimizing the feed setup by using `once()` instead of `on()` for initial setup. They also addressed issues related to order status, specifically recognizing the 'rejected' status, and updated the code to incorporate changes from the `gdax` library. Additionally, they made improvements to the handling of ticker messages and the removal of unused code within the GDAX feed.
tradingcryptocurrencygdaxtrading-bottrading-algorithms
coinbase/coinbase-pro-node
Feb 2018 - Oct 2018
DEPRECATED — The official Node.js library for Coinbase Pro
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & API Developer
Back-end Developer & API DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 12 PRs, 13 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Blair primarily focused on improving the type safety and functionality of the library. They added and corrected return types for several API methods, including `cancelOrder()` and `cancelAllOrders()`, and refined existing type definitions. Furthermore, the user updated the codebase to use the Coinbase Pro API endpoint and updated dependencies to ensure compatibility. These changes demonstrate a focus on API maintenance and code quality improvements.
nodejs-librarygdaxgdax-apiorderbooktrade
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