Lisa Woody
Lead Software Engineer at Black Hills Information Security
Lead, South Dakota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLisa Woody is a Lead Software Engineer with a decade of experience building secure, production-grade systems at Black Hills Information Security, where she rose from intern to lead since 2015. She combines deep backend engineering chops with practical security expertise, having contributed to open-source tooling for network traffic analysis (notably improvements to the RITA legacy project’s parsing and beacon analysis). Known for pragmatic problem-solving, she focuses on robust parsing, resilient database interactions, and operational reliability for threat detection workflows. Lisa graduated magna cum laude in Computer Science from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, grounding her leadership in solid technical fundamentals. Based in Lead, South Dakota, she brings a hands-on, mentor-oriented leadership style that balances shipping features with hardening systems for real-world adversarial environments. Colleagues rely on her to turn complex telemetry and log challenges into auditable, maintainable pipelines.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Magna Cum Laude, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Magna Cum Laude at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Ukrainian, English, Russian
Github Skills (11)
databases10
analyse10
database-api10
go10
text-parsing10
parsing10
database10
mongodb-database9
security9
threat-model9
mongodb9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
activecm/rita-legacy
Oct 2016 - Jan 2023
Real Intelligence Threat Analytics (RITA) is a framework for detecting command and control communication through network traffic analysis.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 36 reviews, 89 commits in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Lisa contributed to the `rita-legacy` repository, which focuses on network traffic analysis for threat detection. Their commits primarily involved enhancements and bug fixes related to parsing and database interactions. They improved the parsing logic by adding checks for column counts, and modified database interactions to accommodate identical log files imported under different database names. Additionally, the user made changes to the beacon analysis and show-beacons commands.
traffic-analysistrafficbeacon-sniffercommand-and-controlthreat-intelligence
lisaSW/rita
Aug 2018 - Nov 2018
Real Intelligence Threat Analytics
Contributions:7 pushes, 4 branches in 2 months
analyticscybersecuritymachine-learningthreatthreat-intelligence
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