Candan Bolukbas
Chief Technology Officer at Black Kite
McLean, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolCandan Bolukbas is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 12+ years of experience building secure, large-scale infrastructure and data analytics platforms from the ground up. He combines deep expertise in network and information security (IDS/IPS, DLP, SOC, vulnerability management, compliance) with hands-on systems architecture across virtualization, SAN, Exchange, and enterprise networking protocols. At Black Kite he drives big-data cyber threat intelligence pipelines using Hadoop, Hive, Spark and MongoDB, bridging darknet collection with low-latency analytics implemented in Python, Bash and .NET. His background spans both software development (iOS apps, streaming protocols, SQL/JSON integrations) and operational engineering—having managed nationwide camera and virtualization fleets and executed zero-downtime Exchange migrations. A practical instructor and practitioner, he has led SOC and CSIRT teams and authored training in advanced network defense and forensics. Based in McLean, VA, he blends strategic CTO responsibilities with frequent hands-on engineering, research and incident response.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Information Systems, Master of Science (MS) Information Systems at Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical University
English, Turkish
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Github Skills (11)
google-cloud-platform6
google-app-engine6
google-cloud-datastore6
tcp2
ethernet2
udp2
network1
python1
summaries1
networking1
wikipedia1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
candanbolukbas/Secure-Programming-Samples
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
candanbolukbas/DNSServer
Apr 2014 - Apr 2014
Contributions:5 commits in 1 day
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