Michael Smith
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Smith is a Field CTO and cybersecurity executive with 25+ years of experience and a current focus on translating strategy into engineering and product outcomes across DNS, DDoS mitigation, WAF, bot management, CDN, API protection, and x509/TLS. Based in Greater Boston, he blends hands-on technical leadership with customer-facing roles—running POCs, technical marketing, and SOC training—to help large-scale platforms evolve threat intelligence and protective DNS services powered by AI/ML. His career spans founding and advising startups, leading regional security growth at Akamai, and building enterprise incident response and threat intelligence capabilities that supported global events and complex industries. Michael also mentors cybersecurity and IoT startups, teaches immersive DFIR/IoT bootcamps, and architects ML-driven systems to detect counterfeit and grey-market threats, showing a rare mix of product, operational, and enforcement experience. An Army National Guard veteran and polyglot in Russian, he combines disciplined operational leadership with deep technical specialization in internet-scale security.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Liberal Studies, Concentration in Russian, Bachelor of Science - BS, Liberal Studies, Concentration in Russian at Excelsior UniversityAdvanced DoD Certificate, Russian Language, Advanced DoD Certificate, Russian Language at Defense Language Institute Foreign Language CenterMaster of Science - MS, Cybersecurity and Information Assurance, Master of Science - MS, Cybersecurity and Information Assurance at Western Governors University
Russian
Github Skills (13)
crypto10
cryptocurrency10
bitcoin10
cryptocurrencies10
python10
algorithmic-trading10
trading-bot10
telegram-bot10
hide4
honeypot3
security3
phishing2
web-framework1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rybolov/freqtrade-data
Nov 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:39 commits, 63 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
rybolov/UltraDDR-IOC-Checker
Jun 2023 - May 2024
Contributions:1 review, 10 pushes in 11 months
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