Dylan Christiansen
Cyber Security Specialist, Sr at Apogee Engineering, LLC
Omaha, Nebraska, United States
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Top SchoolDylan Christiansen is a cyber security specialist with nine years of hands-on experience securing applications, networks, and CI/CD pipelines, currently driving defensive strategy at Apogee Engineering. He pairs a Master's in Cybersecurity (4.0) with a Computer Science bachelor's to blend rigorous academic foundations and practical engineering—comfortable scripting threat responses in Python and architecting secure web applications. His background spans government-aligned research and assurance roles at the National Strategic Research Institute and Strategic Professional Resources, giving him deep exposure to high-assurance environments and incident response. Known for collaborative, team-focused delivery, he moves between hands-on vulnerability management and designing automated, security-first deployment workflows. A detail that stands out: he progressed from software development internships into senior security roles, demonstrating a strong developer-to-defender trajectory that informs pragmatic, buildable security controls.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Cybersecurity, 4.0, Master of Science - MS, Cybersecurity, 4.0 at Bellevue UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Nebraska at Omaha
Github Skills (6)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dchristiansen/dchristiansen.github.io
Sep 2016 - Mar 2023
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 6 months
dchristiansen/CS4620
Jan 2020 - Apr 2020
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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