Summary
Cynthia Dueltgen is a Senior Software Engineer in Berkeley with 12 years of hands-on experience blending cybersecurity, observability, and customer-facing technical leadership. Her unconventional path—from Pixar rendering and 3D graphics to sysadmin, teaching, and senior customer engineering—gives her a rare ability to connect disparate systems and spot the needle in noisy telemetry. A SANS Immersion graduate (GSEC, GCIH), she’s designed adversary simulations, coordinated purple-team exercises, and authored technical reports and video walkthroughs that operational teams actually use. Cynthia excels at translating complex incident data into actionable remediation and SLO-driven practices, and has driven automation and onboarding improvements that cut manual effort by orders of magnitude. At companies like Heroku, Honeycomb, Walgreens, and NVIDIA she’s been the go-to investigator and strategist who both breaks down problems at 3am and teaches teams to avoid them.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Spring Lake Park High
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Northwestern University