Summary
Nate Mcgraw is a cybersecurity-focused full-stack engineer with a decade of hands-on experience spanning SOC operations, web development, and offensive security. He combines OSCP-backed red team skills and active CTF participation with practical SOC experience triaging dozens of daily alerts across platforms like Sumo Logic, Datadog, CrowdStrike, and Microsoft Sentinel. Comfortable building secure Ruby on Rails and React.js applications, Nate maintains a homelab for realistic adversary emulation and defensive tuning with Security Onion. His background in help desk and technical support informs a pragmatic approach to incident response and user-centered security controls. Now based in Charleston, WV, he’s actively transitioning back into offensive roles while continuing to publish research and sharpen detection and exploitation skills.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Flatiron School
Bachelor's degree, Cybersecurity and Information Assurance, Bachelor's degree, Cybersecurity and Information Assurance at Western Governors University
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Old Dominion University