Summary
Cody Doan is a Security Engineer III with nine years of hands-on experience blending software development, threat hunting, and data-driven security at Viasat in San Diego. He began as a software intern applying machine learning to IoT network behavior anomaly detection and has progressed through successive cybersecurity roles into senior engineering, bringing a developer-first mindset to defensive architectures. Cody’s work spans practical detection engineering, incident hunting, and building web tools to operationalize analytics, reflecting both research-era curiosity and production rigor. A UCSD computer science graduate with a 3.9 GPA, he pairs strong academic foundations with real-world delivery on large-scale network security problems. Notably, his background in NBAD and full-stack tooling suggests a knack for turning ML prototypes into operational detections that reduce attacker dwell time.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Carlsbad High School
University of California, San Diego