Summary
Brandon Weir is a Senior Security Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience designing and operating detection, hunting, and central logging infrastructures for enterprises. He has led SIEM/NSM deployments, refined logging and rule sets for efficiency, and implemented enterprise-wide Windows security controls like AppLocker, Credential Guard, and Sysmon. Comfortable both in blue-team operations and ethical hacking training on TryHackMe, he combines practical threat-hunting skills with a full-stack MERN developer background that helps him build custom tooling. Past roles include hardening AD, automating account lifecycle tasks with PowerShell, and architecting centralized log collection at financial and healthcare organizations. Based in Fort Dodge, Iowa, he runs a homelab to prototype new defenses and continuously expands his toolkit through hands-on experimentation.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Cybersecurity, Bachelor of Science - BS, Cybersecurity at Bellevue University
Associate of Arts and Sciences (AAS), Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Associate of Arts and Sciences (AAS), Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Iowa Central Community College