Matthew Collier
Senior Security Engineer at Lumen Technologies
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Collier is a Senior Security Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience designing and operating logging and SIEM environments for large managed security operations. Based in Minneapolis, he has focused on deploying and tuning secure logging pipelines and custom use cases using tools like IBM QRadar, syslog-ng, Kibana, and Elasticsearch to turn noisy telemetry into actionable intelligence. His career progressed from network operations and NOC roles into senior security engineering at Lumen/CenturyLink, giving him deep operational empathy for customer-facing security services such as managed firewalls, VPNs, and DDoS mitigation. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic log parsing, durable deployment patterns, and documentation that bridges engineering and SOC analysts. An unexpected strength: his background in history informs a methodical, investigative approach to incident analysis and threat hunting.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, High School Diploma, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Walter Wellborn High SchoolBachelor's degree, History, Bachelor's degree, History at Jacksonville State University
French, SpanishProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
misterapol/naeq
Feb 2019 - Apr 2020
Contributions:39 commits, 13 PRs, 32 pushes in 1 year 2 months
misterapol/lantern
Apr 2024 - Apr 2024
A simple Streamlit web app for using LlamaIndex, an interface to connect LLM’s with external data.
Contributions:1 PR, 37 pushes, 1 branch in 14 days
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