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
78reputation
6kreached
4answers
3questions
Github Skills (58)
git10
twitter10
github10
feed10
scraper10
webscraping10
frontend10
act10
android-keyboard9
monitoring9
rss9
espn9
command-line9
automation9
web-development9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
pwndude/google-homepage
May 2020 - Jul 2022
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 2 months
smithjoelt/Portfolio-plus
May 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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