Matt Drake
Home Lab - Security Operations Practice
Huntsville, Alabama, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Drake is an IT systems professional with 11 years of hands-on experience who is transitioning into Security Operations, combining a strong foundation in Windows and Linux administration with practical cloud and endpoint security skills. He has supported vulnerability assessments and compliance-driven hardening (NIST, STIG), built hardened OS images, and participated in remediation workflows across federal and commercial environments. In his home lab he deployed a Wazuh SIEM, ingested Windows logs, and practiced investigating authentication anomalies, privilege escalation, and malware indicators—skills he pairs with AWS IAM and CloudWatch experimentation. Comfortable bridging infrastructure and security, he has supported migrations, VMware virtualization, and VOIP/Microsoft 365 environments, which gives him a pragmatic perspective on how operational change affects security. Seeking a Tier 1 SOC Analyst role, he brings disciplined documentation and case-style reporting from his lab exercises, plus a proven record of translating system administration experience into actionable security monitoring and response.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate of Completion, Full Stack Development, Certificate of Completion, Full Stack Development at PDX Code Guild
Github Skills (11)
social-media8
pentest7
hacking6
e-mail6
information-gathering5
python5
mozilla5
django5
api5
automation4
go3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
mattdrake/pdxcodeguild
Aug 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:123 commits in 2 months
alpkeskin/mosint
Apr 2024 - Apr 2024
An automated e-mail OSINT tool
Contributions:1 comment, 3 issues in 19 days
information-gatheringpythonmailemail-checkerdata-breach
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