Paul Poputa-clean
Principal Security Assurance Manager at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Poputa-clean is a Principal Security Assurance Manager at Microsoft with 14 years of hands-on experience building security programs, incident response, and automation-driven analytics. He blends practical DFIR and cloud security expertise with a passion for leveraging big data and automation to mature detection and response capabilities. A SANS-certified practitioner who moved up through technical and program roles in state government and energy, he excels at translating technical risk into measurable assurance for large enterprises. Based in Redmond, he pairs strategic leadership with python-first automation practice and an eye for scalable security telemetry. Outside work he’s an avid hiker and Ducati enthusiast who often tests reliability thinking on two wheels and with canine companions.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Business Administration, B.S. Business Administration at Mid-America Christian UniversityMBA International Business Information Technology, MBA International Business Information Technology at Oklahoma City University
Romanian, French, Spanish, Italian
Github Skills (46)
pcap10
command-line-interface10
packet10
network-monitoring10
indexing10
security10
packet-capture10
javascript9
large-scale9
azure-cli9
scale9
database9
azure9
cli8
command-line8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
paulpc/LogGenerator
Aug 2011 - Mar 2015
Contributions:17 commits, 2 pushes in 3 years 7 months
paulpc/nyx
Nov 2014 - Dec 2015
Contributions:5 commits, 7 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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