Rick Valenzuela
Senior Data Analyst
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRick Valenzuela is a Senior Data Analyst and cybersecurity manager with a decade of cross-disciplinary experience marrying SOC operations and threat intelligence with investigative journalism instincts. He has led SIEM integrations and detection engineering for critical infrastructure and financial clients, authored detection catalogs mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, and automated analysis using Python, bash, and KQL. His background as an award-winning international correspondent and Harvard Belfer Center scholar gives him a rare ability to translate geopolitical complexity and disinformation into operational risk assessments and actionable guidance. Rick also consults for journalists and NGOs, designing security-hardening workshops and practical digital safety guides for high-risk environments. Notably, he built a Python tool to map extremist activity on Telegram, enabling social network analysis for investigations. He looks for roles that blend cybersecurity leadership, threat intelligence, and public-interest tech to protect critical assets and civil liberties.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Journalism, Journalism at Temple UniversityCybersecurity, Policy, and Intelligence Studies, Cybersecurity, Policy, and Intelligence Studies at Harvard UniversityPython, Python at Code Fellows
Github Skills (39)
linux8
markov8
markov-chain7
init7
vagrant7
systemd7
system6
react6
discord-bot6
ico6
android-apps5
service-manager5
android5
mattermost5
django5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rveeblefetzer/learning_journal
Jan 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:16 PRs, 67 pushes, 7 branches in 1 month
pyramidjournalsql-databasesqldatabase
rveeblefetzer/btcince
Nov 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:66 commits, 8 PRs, 47 pushes in 1 month
ishpythonbitcoin-transactionpython-scripttransaction
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