John Mcgovern
Staff Solutions Engineer at SentinelOne
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Mcgovern is a Staff Solutions Engineer based in San Diego with 11 years of hands-on experience helping organizations make cybersecurity data accessible and actionable using Splunk and adjacent security platforms. He progressed through multiple senior technical and sales-engineering roles at Splunk before joining SentinelOne, blending deep product expertise with customer-facing solution design. John pairs a practical networking and systems background—dating back to university and early network engineering roles—with a Master’s in Cybersecurity Operations & Leadership, enabling him to translate complex telemetry into operational detection and response. Known for bridging engineering, sales, and incident response stakeholders, he excels at turning noisy data into prioritized, auditable security outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Information Systems, Bachelor of Science - BS Information Systems at Point Loma Nazarene UniversityMaster of Science - MS Cybersecurity Operations & Leadership, Master of Science - MS Cybersecurity Operations & Leadership at University of San Diego
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Github Skills (8)
bare10
ansible-role9
splunk9
process-management8
ansible8
workload8
init7
systemd7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
johnmcgovern/ansible-phantom-base
Feb 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:52 commits, 56 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
johnmcgovern/ansible-splunk-base
Feb 2019 - Dec 2022
This Ansible role that installs or upgrades a bare Splunk instance of a specified version with either systemd (Workload Management supported) or initd for process management.
Contributions:129 commits, 150 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
process-managementansibleworkload-managementsupportedsplunk
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