Michael Jenkins
Graduate Teaching Assistant
West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Jenkins is a cybersecurity practitioner and Graduate Teaching Assistant at Purdue University with nine years of hands-on experience across consulting, academia, and defense internships. He previously served as a Senior Consultant in Crowe’s Cyber Security practice, leading penetration tests, framework-based maturity assessments, and automation projects that modernized Azure and vSphere engagement workflows with Terraform, Ansible, Packer, and GitLab CI/CD. Comfortable in both technical audits (Linux, Windows, Entra ID, Active Directory) and governance work, he’s delivered virtual security officer services, policy drafting, and acquisition transition planning for diverse industries. As an educator he has built and taught incident response and cybersecurity labs, even writing a Rust ransomware simulation to illustrate real-world malware evasions and cryptographic pitfalls. Based in West Lafayette, he pairs a rigorous Purdue education (BS with highest distinction, MS in progress) with a HomeLab and smart-home hobbyist mindset that keeps his skills current and curiosity engaged.
9 years of coding experience
Semester Study Abroad, Semester Study Abroad at Czech Technical University in PragueMaster of Science - MS, Computer and Information Technology, Master of Science - MS, Computer and Information Technology at Purdue UniversityCore 40 with Academic Honors Diploma, Core 40 with Academic Honors Diploma at West Lafayette Jr/Sr High School
Github Skills (12)
slint6
cybersecurity3
executable2
custom-component2
linux2
rust2
incident-response2
windows1
3d-printing1
certificate1
home-assistant1
home-automation1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jenkinsmichpa/invokeai-colab
Jan 2023 - Feb 2023
Google Colab notebook for running Invoke AI GUI
Contributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 15 pushes in 1 month
jenkinsmichpa/coconut_crab
Aug 2024 - Mar 2025
Ransomware attack simulation for educational use
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
cybersecurityincident-responsepurdue-universityransomwarered-team
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