Ell Marquez
Chief Of Special Programs at Operation Safe Escape
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEll Marquez is a cybersecurity educator and program leader with eight years of experience helping organizations and practitioners secure on-prem and cloud environments. As Chief of Special Programs at Operation Safe Escape and a Cyber Defense Instructor at Northeast Lakeview College, she blends hands-on security research with curriculum design and volunteer coordination. Her background includes roles as a security advocate, technical trainer, and Linux/OpenStack systems instructor, reflecting deep expertise across infrastructure, cloud, and threat research. She has traveled globally to teach and evangelize pragmatic security practices, often translating complex defensive concepts into actionable training. Based in San Antonio, she is an organizer in the local security community and brings a personable, advocacy-driven approach rooted in real-world operations. Colleagues know her as a passionate educator—part globetrotting mentor, part pragmatic defender—who keeps a grounded sense of curiosity about where technology and human safety intersect.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Occupational Education, Bachelor of Science (BS) Occupational Education at Wayland Baptist UniversityRHCSA Linux System Administration, RHCSA Linux System Administration at Rackspace Open Cloud Academy
English, Spanish
Github Skills (10)
sensu6
openflow5
system-administration4
snmp4
juniper3
opendev3
cicd2
remote-execution2
devops2
continuous-integration2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ellmarquez/public_talks
Jan 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:32 commits, 29 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
ellmarquez/100DaysofCode
Apr 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:33 pushes, 4 branches in 1 month
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