Joel Smith
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolJoel Smith is a cybersecurity practitioner with 11 years in IT and 5+ years focused on threat detection, incident response, and network defense, currently pursuing a B.S. in Cybersecurity at WGU. He holds Security+, Google and ISC² certifications plus CompTIA's CSIS stack, and habitually uses Splunk, Wireshark, Suricata, Python, SQL, Linux, and Windows to hunt anomalies and harden infrastructure. Past roles span enterprise desktop support, IT support for healthcare software, and technical operations for IoT-enabled property platforms—experiences that sharpened his data integrity and systems troubleshooting instincts. He has hands-on experience reconciling sensitive records during system migrations and automating workflows to reduce manual errors, making him comfortable in both investigative SOC work and operational support. Based in Portland, OR, he’s actively seeking SOC Analyst / Incident Response roles and brings a practical blend of support-level empathy and security-focused technical rigor that accelerates mean time to detection and recovery.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Google Cybersecurity Professional Certificate Cyber Security, Google Cybersecurity Professional Certificate Cyber Security at CourseraBachelor of Science - BS Cybersecurity and Information Assurance, Bachelor of Science - BS Cybersecurity and Information Assurance at Western Governors University
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (75)
github10
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javascript10
twitter10
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webscraping10
espn10
sass-framework10
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prototypes10
prototyping10
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
smithjoelt/Portfolio-plus
May 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
pwndude/newworldorder
Nov 2024 - Nov 2024
Contributions:33 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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