Keith Mcgerald
Security Engineer at Nova Labs
Ashburn, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKeith Mcgerald is a Security Engineer with 11+ years of experience defending large-scale web properties and email ecosystems, now contributing to security at AWS after a two-decade tenure at AOL tackling phishing, malware, and abuse. He pairs a strong academic foundation (MS in Computer Science) and early HPC systems work with hands-on incident response, log and network traffic analysis, and bespoke tooling to automate detection and remediation. As a co-founder of Nova Labs, he brings entrepreneurial perspective to technical problem solving and a habit of leveraging existing software alongside custom scripts. Known for practical forensic skills and threat-focused engineering, he combines deep operational experience with an ability to translate messy telemetry into actionable defenses.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at James Madison University
Github Skills (31)
pcap10
python10
mqtt10
packet10
network-monitoring10
indexing10
security10
iot10
automation10
packet-capture10
robotics-simulation10
home-assistant10
raspberry-pi10
home-automation10
javascript9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kmcgerald/floppy-waffle
Oct 2015 - Dec 2020
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
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