Summary
Christopher Lott is a principal cybersecurity engineer at AT&T with over a decade of experience designing and shipping production-grade security and network automation systems. He leads a distributed ten-person team building an orchestration system that controls white-box routers to block and capture IP traffic, and has driven architecture, CI/CD, and Docker-based deployments for constrained production environments. His background blends research and product engineering—from PhD-level work in computer science to hands-on contributions to open-source telecom projects like O-RAN, Acumos, and ONAP—bringing both deep protocol knowledge and practical ML/Kubernetes experience. He has a track record of converting large-scale threat and IoC data into actionable ETL pipelines and MISP integrations that process gigabytes of data routinely. Known as a mentor and process improver, he coaches remote engineers in agile practices, code review, and release discipline while bridging security, operations, and development. Based in New Jersey, he pairs academic rigor with pragmatic engineering to deliver auditable, scalable cybersecurity solutions.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Maryland, College Park
B.S., Computer & Information Science, Summa Cum Laude, B.S., Computer & Information Science, Summa Cum Laude at The Ohio State University
English, German