Mark Mclauchlin - Application Security Specialist

Mark Mclauchlin

Application Security Specialist - Penetration Testing

Greenville, South Carolina, United States

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Mark Mclauchlin is an Application Security Specialist with eight years focused on penetration testing and a broader 16+ year technical career spanning security, QA, and compliance. Based in Greenville, SC, he leads internal pen tests across web and infrastructure stacks and architected GM’s Centralized Log Management using OpenSearch and Elastic, plus integrations with Kafka, Grafana, S3 and other open-source tooling. He automates deployments and security validation with Python, Bash, and PowerShell, and has applied DevOps-style scripting to both ELK automation and container security. A seasoned trainer and presenter, he’s delivered ELK-focused workshops for executive and community audiences and blends hands-on engineering with stakeholder-facing communication. His background in product compliance and QA for consumer electronics gives him a practical systems-level view that helps surface real-world vulnerabilities and remediation pathways.

8 years of coding experience

9 years of employment as a software developer

M.S. Information Technology, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, M.S. Information Technology, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Southern Polytechnic State University

B.A.A.S., Computer Information Technology Programming, B.A.A.S., Computer Information Technology Programming at St Edwards University

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Github Skills (2)

elasticsearch6

elasticsearch-sql6

Github contributions (5)

macatak/linux

Nov 2019 - Feb 2024

Contributions:41 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months

macatak/ELK

Jan 2019 - Jul 2022

Contributions:188 commits, 185 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months

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