Blake Hensley
Cyber Security Analyst at Handshake
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBlake Hensley is an AI trainer and cybersecurity expert based in Cincinnati with a decade of hands-on experience building and validating threat detection pipelines across financial, healthcare, and managed security environments. Currently training cyber-focused AI models at Handshake while tutoring peers in cybersecurity and forensics, he blends practical SOC experience with Detection-as-Code practices and CI/CD validation for high-fidelity detections. Past roles include threat intelligence at Fifth Third Bank—where he built tooling to aggregate and route IOCs—and detection engineering at Encore, where he expanded logging coverage, automated detection QA, and halved phishing volume through targeted email filters. A contributor to the .NET Windows Forms test suite, Blake applies rigorous QA and automation discipline to both security tooling and software projects. He’s pursuing a Cybersecurity degree at the University of Cincinnati and is known for turning research into operational controls that scale across teams and institutions.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Cybersecurity, Bachelor's degree, Cybersecurity at University of CincinnatiHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Loveland High School
Github Skills (8)
listview10
windows-forms10
unit-testing10
combobox10
android-listview10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
test-automation9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dotnet/winforms
Dec 2021 - Apr 2022
Windows Forms is a .NET UI framework for building Windows desktop applications.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:10 reviews, 8 commits, 9 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Blake primarily contributed to enhancing the test suite and fixing existing bugs in the Windows Forms framework. Their work involved creating and modifying unit tests, specifically for the ComboBox and ListView controls. The commits demonstrate a focus on ensuring correct behavior, particularly around handling events and interactions within these UI components. They also fixed issues related to snap layout and drawing within ComboBox.
dotnetui-frameworkwindowswindows-desktopwindows-forms
jbhensley/corefx
Aug 2018 - Aug 2019
This repo contains the .NET Core foundational libraries, called CoreFX. It includes classes for collections, file systems, console, XML, async and many others. We welcome contributions.
Contributions:6 PRs, 85 pushes, 34 branches in 1 year
dotnetfile-systemsconsolexmlnet-core
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