Eric Gershman
Security Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Gershman is a security engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience in penetration testing, vulnerability management, and incident response, currently focused on cloud-scale protections at Amazon Web Services. He has deep technical roots from roles at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and PSC, where he assessed Active Directory, Linux, HPC and AWS environments and led client-facing pentest engagements tied to PCI-DSS. Comfortable across blue- and red-team disciplines, Eric has designed IDS strategies for 100G networks, implemented risk-based patching programs, and automated system administration tasks with Bash/Perl/Python. Based in Chattanooga, he combines research-grade rigor from national lab work with practical operational experience deploying firewalls, HA virtualization, and secure retail-store testing. Notably, he pairs his offensive testing background with programmatic remediation and stakeholder communication, bridging technical findings into actionable security improvements.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Information Technology, High School, Information Technology at McFatterBachelor of Science (B.S.), Information Technology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Information Technology at University of Central Florida
Github Skills (59)
asynchronous10
network-tools10
crossword10
xapi10
snmp10
mercury10
assetbundle10
svn10
nmap10
group-policy10
mod-manager10
probe10
nse10
ansible-collections10
windows10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dc865/writeups
Nov 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 6 months
EricGershman/auditd-examples
Aug 2015 - May 2016
Collection of Auditd Examples and Presentations
Contributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 10 pushes in 9 months
security-automationauditsecuritylinuxintrusion-detection
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