Neal Brown
Senior Security DevOps Engineer at Trend Micro
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolNeal Brown is a Senior Security DevOps Engineer in Austin with a decade of hands-on experience blending security research, DevSecOps automation, and Linux systems administration at companies like Trend Micro and HPE. He holds a Master’s in Digital Forensic Science (4.0 GPA) and teaches cybersecurity and Unix topics as an adjunct professor, bringing academic rigor to practical security engineering. Neal’s background spans vulnerability fuzzing, research-driven tooling, and production security operations—skills he’s applied to harden cloud and CI/CD environments. AWS Security certification and a strong foundation in digital forensics inform his threat-aware approach to infrastructure and deployment. Outside of engineering he’s a published musician and poet, a detail that underscores his creative problem-solving and clear communication in high-stakes technical work.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's in Digital Forensic Science, Digital Forensics /Computer Security, 4.0 GPA, Master's in Digital Forensic Science, Digital Forensics /Computer Security, 4.0 GPA at Champlain CollegeComputer Security and Forensics, Hardware and Software Security- E discovery methods, 3.79 GPA, Computer Security and Forensics, Hardware and Software Security- E discovery methods, 3.79 GPA at Broome Community College
Github Skills (45)
continuous-integration8
splunk8
virtualbox8
aws8
vagrantfile8
testing8
lambda7
aws-lambda7
serverless-framework7
ansible7
openstack7
python7
packer6
serverless6
vagrant6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
nealbrown/ursula
Oct 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:88 pushes, 50 branches in 1 year 1 month
blueboxansibleoperatingansible-playbooks
nealbrown/splunk-automation
Dec 2024 - Jan 2025
Python REST API CLI Typer App and Fabric fabfile for Splunk Automation
Contributions:10 PRs, 56 pushes, 10 branches in 23 days
fabricpythonrequestssplunktyper
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