Paul Calabro
Lead Security Automation Engineer
Scottsdale, Arizona United States
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Top SchoolPaul Calabro is a Lead Security Automation Engineer with 11+ years of experience building automation and platform tooling to strengthen incident response and overall security posture at scale. He blends software and systems expertise—spanning web development, C#, Python/Bash scripting, and extensive Linux/Windows administration—with deep automation practice using Puppet, Ansible, Docker, and Jenkins. At PayPal he leads a team that converts security processes into reliable, auditable workflows, and his open-source contributions include backend fixes for the popular Cacti monitoring system and clarifying documentation for the Wazuh project. Comfortable across networking, virtualization, and monitoring stacks, he brings a hands-on approach to infrastructure-as-code and security tooling. Known for practical problem-solving, he often surfaces subtle operational gaps (e.g., outdated container docs or duplicate graph handling) and turns them into long-lived improvements. Based in Scottsdale, he pairs a BS in Computer Science and Business Management with a passion for making security repeatable through automation.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Lynn Classical High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Business Management, 3.76, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Business Management, 3.76 at Newbury College
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Github Skills (24)
mysql10
databases10
php10
ossec10
documentation10
database10
security9
cacti9
compliance8
api8
api-design8
log-analysis7
automation7
automations7
html6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
Cacti/cacti
Jul 2017 - Sep 2017
Cacti ™
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 20 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Paul's contributions primarily involve back-end development within the Cacti monitoring system. They addressed bugs and improved existing features by modifying PHP code in files related to device management, graph generation, and template synchronization. The user also implemented more robust handling of duplicate graphs and integrated regular expressions for advanced filtering within the application. Their work focused on improving the application's functionality and data handling.
graph-templatingrrdtoolcacti-frameworkcactiphp
wazuh/wazuh-documentation
Jan 2019 - Feb 2019
Wazuh - Project documentation
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to the project by updating and clarifying the project documentation. Their work focused on refining the documentation for the `syslog-output.rst` and `integration.rst` files, correcting inaccuracies regarding rule groups, and providing clearer explanations. Additionally, they updated the `wazuh-container.rst` file to remove outdated information about exposed ports in the Docker Compose YAML file. These changes indicate a focus on improving the clarity, accuracy, and maintainability of the project's documentation.
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