Jacob Humphrey
Cyber Threat Hunter
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Humphrey is a Cyber Threat Hunter with 11 years of IT experience, currently applying advanced threat-hunting techniques at Boeing after roles in SOC analysis and fusion threat hunting at Leidos. He blends hands-on systems and network expertise from military service in the Air Force with cloud-focused engineering—deploying and managing AWS services and automating workflows via scripting and version control. A practical analyst who moves beyond alerts, Jacob hunts across endpoint telemetry, network traffic, and large datasets to turn intelligence into rapid, auditable response playbooks. He also contributes to open-source—enhancing the well-regarded curl-rust bindings with download and time-condition features—demonstrating a commitment to refining tooling used by developers. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, he holds multiple cybersecurity and IT certifications and is completing an MS in Cybersecurity Risk and Strategy at NYU.
11 years of coding experience
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of WashingtonMaster of Science - MS, Cybersecurity Risk and Strategy, Master of Science - MS, Cybersecurity Risk and Strategy at New York UniversityAssociate of Science - AS, Military Applied Sciences, Associate of Science - AS, Military Applied Sciences at Community College of the Air ForceRisk Management Framework, Project Management, Risk Management Framework, Project Management at NIST RMFBachelor's degree, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Bachelor's degree, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at California Institute of Arts & TechnologySecurity+, Information Technology, Security+, Information Technology at CompTIA Tech Career AcademyCertification, Splunk Certified User, Certification, Splunk Certified User at SplunkAssociate of Arts - AA, Architecture, Associate of Arts - AA, Architecture at Gulf Coast State College
Github Skills (7)
rust10
api10
libcurl10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
binding9
concurrency8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
alexcrichton/curl-rust
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
Rust bindings to libcurl
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 3 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Jacob focused on enhancing the `curl-rust` library by introducing new features related to time conditions and downloads. This involved adding functions to check time conditions, modifying existing code, and integrating with the underlying libcurl functionality. The user also refactored the code and used internal functions within the library and added functionality to access download-related information. This shows a dedication to improving and refining the functionality of the library for the Rust programming language.
libcurlrust
KaKnife/crystal
Dec 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:85 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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