Franklin D
Principal PS Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolFranklin D is a Principal Professional Services Engineer based in Denver with 11 years of experience building and automating security-first cloud and Kubernetes infrastructures. He specializes in cloud security, cloud-native CI/CD (notably Tekton), and containerized ML deployments on k8s, blending hands-on automation with custom API and pipeline development. At Palo Alto Networks he automates security deployments across public cloud and virtualized environments, and his prior work at Salesforce focused on data engineering and detection pipelines that power security analytics. An active open-source security contributor, he improves Kubernetes penetration-testing tooling by adding image tagging, gosec checks, and robustness to setup scripts. Franklin pairs advanced academic training in network and systems security with practical teaching and research experience, and he describes himself succinctly as “Me and the machines, chasing dreams on the grid,” reflecting a pragmatic, curiosity-driven approach to engineering.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
https://trailhead.com/me/franklindiaz, https://trailhead.com/me/franklindiaz at Trailhead by SalesforceMaster of Science - MS Network Engineering/Network Security, Master of Science - MS Network Engineering/Network Security at DePaul University Jarvis College of Computing and Digital MediaMaster of Science - MS Computer and Information Systems, Master of Science - MS Computer and Information Systems at Northwestern UniversityBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Roosevelt University
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Github Skills (10)
kubernetes10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
bash9
docker8
dockers8
aws7
cicd6
openmpi6
ubuntu6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
inguardians/peirates
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:10 reviews, 23 commits, 14 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Franklin primarily contributes to the project by making modifications to the setup script, including adding and updating the code to include docker image tagging, gosec testing, and integrating with the main branch. They demonstrate a focus on the security aspects of the project through the addition of the gosec badge, indicating an understanding of security best practices. They also correct error handling.
securitypenetrationtestingpenetration-testingkubernetes
devsecfranklin/devsecfranklin
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:27 commits, 16 PRs, 17 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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