Summary
Matt Larkin is a Senior Cybersecurity Cloud Solutions Architect at Microsoft Federal with 11 years of experience helping federal customers design, operate, and respond to incidents in Azure, with a particular focus on Microsoft Sentinel and SOC infrastructure. He combines hands-on incident response, workshops, and assessments with architecture and break/fix support to translate security requirements into operational cloud defenses. His background spans endpoint and modern workplace engineering, large-scale helpdesk and migration projects, and automation—he even authored an SCCM dynamic provisioning solution on GitHub. Based in Kingsport, Tennessee, he holds advanced training in cybersecurity and a CS degree, blending formal education with practical field work. Known internally as a Kusto and Sentinel expert, he pairs deep telemetry/query skills with pragmatic guidance for federal SOCs. Unexpectedly, his career includes roles from AppleCare to OpenStack and ERP mobile development, giving him a rare mix of customer-facing support and software engineering perspective.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Missions/Missionary Studies and Missiology, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Missions/Missionary Studies and Missiology at Clear Creek Baptist Bible College
Bachelor's of Science Computer Science, Bachelor's of Science Computer Science at King University
Masters Cyber Security and Information Assurance, Masters Cyber Security and Information Assurance at Western Governors University
Associate of Science (A.S.) Information Technology, Associate of Science (A.S.) Information Technology at Northeast State Community College
English, Spanish