Craig Merchant
Senior Security Architect at The College Board
Emeryville, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCraig Merchant is a Senior Security Architect with 25+ years designing and operating complex security and network solutions across startups and enterprises, currently leading security architecture at The College Board. He is a top-tier Splunk practitioner who has built and rearchitected SIEMs integrating tools like Nessus, Snort, FireEye, Palo Alto, and analytics-driven anomaly detection at scale. Craig has repeatedly been the first security hire—translating product and go-to-market needs into repeatable security offerings, automation playbooks, and SOAR use cases for startups and adtech firms. His background spans hands-on routing/switching, host/network IDS, vulnerability management, and disaster recovery, plus managing national and international engineering teams. Notably he pairs deep technical execution with productization experience—creating pricing calculators, customer playbooks, and mentoring junior engineers—rooted in a non-technical academic foundation from Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Political Theory, Philosophy, Women's Studies, BS, Political Theory, Philosophy, Women's Studies at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service
German
Github Skills (9)
swiftui8
uikit7
swift7
ios6
js-api1
metadata1
ffmpeg1
api1
nodejs1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
CraigMerchant/CMIndexBar
Apr 2011 - Jun 2018
Simple replacment for UITableView Index which allows the colors to be changed
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 7 years 3 months
indexswiftiosuikitswiftui
CraigMerchant/craigmerchant.github.io
Oct 2017 - Apr 2019
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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