Bob Blank
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolBob Blank is a seasoned security and infrastructure engineer with 7 years of recent experience and a 30+-year technical career spanning security engineering, systems architecture, and SIEM/observability platforms. He has led security initiatives at enterprise retailers and cloud vendors—designing SOCs, PKI, DLP, and large-scale patching/deployment systems—and served as a go-to expert for SSL/TLS and high-severity incidents at Elastic. Equally comfortable coding and operating cloud-native stacks, he built lab environments with Python, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes (EKS/GKE/Minikube) and automated CI/CD pipelines to deploy serverless and containerized apps. Known as an “intense” but effective mentor, he enjoys translating complex technologies for non-technical stakeholders and growing teams through hiring and coaching. Based in Minneapolis, he combines deep hands-on craftsmanship with a pragmatic belief that security should be simple, usable, and maintainable.
7 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at Penn State University
Github Skills (26)
search-engine10
opensearch10
observability10
transport10
kibana10
java10
restful10
logstash10
elasticsearch10
logging10
elastic10
visualizations10
jruby10
streaming10
filebeat9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
BobBlank12/certlint
Jun 2023 - Jul 2023
certlint
Contributions:3 reviews, 6 PRs, 13 pushes in 3 days
BobBlank12/test
May 2023 - May 2023
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 day
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