Matthew Hofert
Lead Software Engineer at State Farm ®
Normal, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Hofert is a Lead Software Engineer and cybersecurity specialist with eight years of hands-on experience building automation and orchestration (SOAR) solutions, identity reporting tools, and security integrations. He has driven development of hundreds of plugins and CI tooling at Rapid7, built custom identity and auditor-reporting automation at TEKsystems, and architected SIEM and endpoint controls in enterprise environments. Based in Normal, Illinois, he combines practical incident response and forensic experience with software engineering discipline—authoring validators, unit-test frameworks, and Terraform for deployments. Matthew’s work often bridges security and operations, turning disparate data sources (LDAP, Azure, SailPoint) into auditable, visualized outputs for stakeholders. He is seeking information security roles in central Illinois where he can apply both his coding depth and operational security experience.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Information Systems Assurance and Security, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Information Systems Assurance and Security, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Illinois State University
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Github Skills (12)
plugin10
validation9
aerospike9
tooling8
integrations7
workflow-engine5
elt4
splunk2
windows1
python1
remote-management1
winrm1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rapid7/icon-integrations-validators
Jan 2020 - Apr 2020
Validator tooling for InsightConnection integrations
Contributions:6 releases, 1 review, 119 commits in 2 months
validatorintegrationsvalidationtooling
rapid7/insightconnect-workflows
Nov 2019 - Jan 2021
Community workflows for the InsightConnect SOAR product
Contributions:11 reviews, 217 commits, 46 PRs in 1 year 1 month
soarqueuesworkflow-engineinsightconnectaerospike
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