Dan Urson
Threat Intelligence Lead
Trenton, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Urson is a threat intelligence lead with nearly a decade of hands-on experience securing cloud infrastructure at scale, including leadership roles at AWS and Vultr. He specializes in cloud and network security, threat hunting, incident response, and security research, and helped co-author and publish AWS’s public security bulletins while co-leading their security research community engagement. Known for turning operational security into clear customer communication, he has acted as a liaison to senior leadership and mentored junior engineers. A practical, customer-focused operator who began his career in culinary and frontline service roles, Dan brings uncommon empathy and real-world resilience to high-pressure security work. Based in Trenton, Michigan, he balances life as a husband and dad with a pragmatic, non-programmer’s approach to cloud security.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Herzlia High SchoolDiploma Culinary Arts, Diploma Culinary Arts at City and Guilds
Afrikaans, Hebrew, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (166)
low-level10
secrets10
vault10
cli10
squid10
aws-cli10
amazon10
amazon-web-services10
aws10
hashicorp-vault9
robotics9
ftp9
icap9
security9
proxy9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
plygrnd/plygrnd.net
Apr 2018 - Nov 2024
My personal website
Contributions:1 PR, 22 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 8 months
reactnextjs
plygrnd/snoowatch
Dec 2017 - Mar 2022
A suite of tools to analyze submissions, users and comments on Reddit.
Contributions:87 commits, 7 PRs, 19 pushes in 4 years 4 months
submissionscommentssuiteredditanalyze
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