Melissa Bruno
Security Consultant at Black Hills Information Security
Tokyo, Japan
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Top SchoolMelissa Bruno is a seasoned security consultant with a decade of experience in threat analysis and incident response, currently based in Tokyo and consulting for Black Hills Information Security. Her background spans hands-on security analysis and integration work at Dyn, where she transitioned from integration engineer to security analyst, grounding her in infrastructure and operational security. She contributes to open-source threat analytics—most notably improving beacon analysis, scoring, and reporting in the RITA framework—bringing practical backend engineering skills to security tooling. With a bachelor's in Computer Information Systems from the University of New Hampshire-Manchester, she combines formal IT training, lab and tutoring experience, and real-world consulting to translate complex telemetry into actionable findings. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic problem-solver who bridges deep technical analysis with clear, auditable reporting for clients.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Information Systems, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Information Systems at University of New Hampshire-Manchester
English, Japanese
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Github Skills (12)
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mongodb10
analytics10
mongodb-database10
security9
rest-api8
api-rest8
data-structures8
data-structure8
api-design8
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
activecm/rita-legacy
Jun 2017 - Sep 2019
Real Intelligence Threat Analytics (RITA) is a framework for detecting command and control communication through network traffic analysis.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:39 commits, 21 PRs, 69 pushes in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Melissa primarily contributed to the backend logic of the RITA framework, focusing on threat analytics. They modified the beacon analysis module, introducing data size metrics and refining scoring algorithms. The user also updated database schemas and implemented changes to the reporting functionality, enhancing the system's data processing and reporting capabilities.
traffic-analysistrafficbeacon-sniffercommand-and-controlthreat-intelligence
meljbruno/rita
Jun 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:5 pushes, 2 branches in 24 days
analyticscybersecuritymachine-learningthreatthreat-intelligence
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