Matt Svensson
Director, IT & Security at GetReal
Atlanta Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolMatt Svensson is a cybersecurity and IT leader, founder, and hands-on practitioner with 15+ years of experience spanning combat-zone network operations, DoD service, and senior security roles in startups and scale-ups. He builds sustainable teams, architectures, and programs—having led SOCs, designed security data lakes and NLP-enabled SIEM queries, and completed SOC 2 and ISO 27001 attestations with zero nonconformities. As founder of SecurityMinded and SecurityScout he provides fractional security leadership and consulting that brings enterprise-grade controls to SMBs without full-time overhead. He also founded We Defend Charities, delivering pro bono MSSP services while mentoring veterans and underrepresented technologists into cyber careers. Technically driven, Matt automates where it adds value—creating SOAR playbooks, AI skills for security workflows, and remediation tooling that materially reduced risk and operational friction. Based in the Atlanta area, he combines CISSP and multiple SANS certifications with an MS in Computer Science to bridge strategy and hands-on implementation.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Communications, Bachelor of Arts, Communications at Wheaton CollegeMaster of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at Georgia State University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (55)
face-detection10
python10
machine-learning10
facial-recognition10
face-recognition10
command-line10
aws-s310
beacon9
scanning9
xml9
network-traffic9
bruteforce8
dictionary-attack7
scanner7
youtube7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Ucnt/aws-s3-bruteforce
Aug 2017 - Nov 2018
Contributions:4 PRs, 140 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
amazonamazon-awsaws-s3awss3-bucket
Ucnt/aws-s3-data-finder
Nov 2018 - Jan 2022
AWS S3 Sensitive Data Search
Contributions:71 commits, 1 PR, 54 pushes in 3 years 3 months
aws-s3
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