Jonathan Searles
Lead Solutions Architect at XBOW
Greater Hartford United States
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Top SchoolJonathan Searles is a Lead Solutions Architect with 12 years of experience blending security, cloud, and hands-on engineering to design resilient enterprise systems. A former Sr. Technical Account Manager at AWS and long-time SOC leader in banking, he specializes in building detection, response, and vulnerability management capabilities while translating technical risk into operational outcomes. He’s a generalist-turned-security-then-cloud practitioner who enjoys gamified upskilling and enabling teams to adopt secure cloud patterns. Jonathan’s background ranges from field POS engineering to managing purple teams and incident forensics, giving him uncommon empathy for both operations and product owners. Based in Greater Hartford, he combines practical incident-response instincts with cloud architecture fluency to help organizations harden fast-moving environments.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
MGT517: Managing Security Operations: Detection, Response, and Intelligence, MGT517: Managing Security Operations: Detection, Response, and Intelligence at SANS Technology InstituteInformation Security, Information Security at USCC Eastern Regional Cyber CampBachelor of Science (BS), Information Technology - Security, Bachelor of Science (BS), Information Technology - Security at Western Governors UniversityTransfer, Honors Computer Science / Mathematics, Transfer, Honors Computer Science / Mathematics at CT State Tunxis
Github Skills (7)
flask10
attack-defense9
security9
ctf9
aws3
coverage2
aws-cloudformation2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
SkeyeLlama/BSides-CT-2014---CTF-Challenges
Jun 2014 - Sep 2014
Contributions:3 commits in 3 months
SkeyeLlama/CTFd
Aug 2017 - Sep 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 20 pushes, 5 branches in 7 years 2 months
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