Carl Harris
Director, Cyber Operations & Deputy CISO
Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCarl Harris is a seasoned cybersecurity executive and hands-on operator with over two decades of experience driving 24/7 security operations, incident response, and threat intelligence across government and commercial environments. As Director of Cyber Operations & Deputy CISO at Acuity International, he blends strategic leadership with practical SOC engineering gained from leading teams at Exostar and CACI supporting DoD and intelligence partners. He has deep technical roots—from packet-level forensics and code-level analysis to designing intrusion detection architectures—and a track record of improving detection and response through tooling, automation, and process. Carl also contributes to open-source back-end work, notably extending Apache Guacamole with a listener API to enable event notifications, showing he still gets into code. Based in Blacksburg, VA, he pairs a BS in Information Systems (Cyber Security Management) with a pragmatic, sometimes irreverent approach to complex problems. He’s known for turning high-pressure incidents into repeatable, auditable defenses while mentoring teams to operational excellence.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BS Information Systems Concentration in Cyber Security Management, BS Information Systems Concentration in Cyber Security Management at Strayer University
Github Skills (6)
javas10
webextension10
event-handling10
guacamole10
java10
api-design9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
glyptodon/guacamole-client
Aug 2017 - Jan 2018
The Guacamole project is now Apache Guacamole (http://guacamole.apache.org/). This repository has been repurposed as the base for the Apache Guacamole packages built for Glyptodon Enterprise.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Carl's primary contribution was the implementation of an extension module for Guacamole, focused on integrating event listeners. They refactored and expanded the existing codebase by introducing new features like a ListenerFactory and ListenerService. These changes included the addition of new interfaces and adapter classes to support the new listener API and deprecate the existing one. This work involved modifying existing components and adding new ones to support event notifications within the system.
guacamoleapacheapache-guacamoleenterprise
soulwing/javashmail-provider
Aug 2014 - Oct 2020
JavaMail provider with useful shims and shams for application testing
Contributions:84 commits, 2 PRs, 33 pushes in 6 years 3 months
javamailprovidertestingshimsjava
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