Matt Nelson
Cyber Security Advisor at FedEx
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Nelson is a seasoned cybersecurity advisor with over 17 years of information security experience and 13 years in focused incident response and threat hunting roles. Currently at FedEx as a Cyber Security Advisor, he brings deep expertise in digital and network forensics, malware analysis, and building CSIRT/SOC capabilities. He has led program improvements and engineering efforts at large enterprises like Cargill—creating malware ingestion frameworks, Signal rule deployment to 90K+ endpoints, and a hunt laboratory for detection validation. Comfortable across industries from financial and healthcare to agriculture and manufacturing, Matt blends hands-on technical analysis with process and code-driven automation. A former Marine Corps systems administrator, he pairs disciplined operational rigor with a passion for mentoring and knowledge sharing. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic incident response leadership that scales across global, complex environments.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Information Technology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Information Technology at Capella University
Github Skills (25)
winrm9
linux9
shell9
powershell9
macos8
netcore8
command-line8
windows8
artifacts8
rest5
api5
analyzer5
cortex5
incident-management4
information-security3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
n3l5/irFARTpull
Aug 2013 - Apr 2017
Contributions:53 commits, 25 pushes in 3 years 8 months
forensicwin7windowspowershellpowershell-script
n3l5/netshPacketCap
Aug 2014 - Dec 2015
Contributions:6 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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