Rod Soto
Principal Software Engineer at Splunk
Summary
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RockstarRod Soto is a Principal Software Engineer with six years of hands-on experience focused on automation, CI/CD, and security content pipelines. He has contributed to prominent open-source security tooling—most notably work on Splunk's security_content—where he streamlined CircleCI workflows to integrate AWS CLI, Terraform, and automated test validation. Rod combines infrastructure-as-code practices with DevOps-driven testing to ensure reliable, auditable deployments of detection logic and related resources. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and detail-oriented, able to translate security requirements into reproducible build and test automation. He brings a practical emphasis on pipeline resilience and validation that reduces manual drift and accelerates secure delivery.
6 years of coding experience
Github Skills (6)
terraformer10
terraform10
cicd10
aws9
python8
bash6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
splunk/security_content
Feb 2020 - Sep 2022
Splunk Security Content
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:11 reviews, 201 commits, 56 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Rod's commits primarily involve modifications to the CircleCI configuration file (`circleci_config.j2`) within the `splunk/security_content` repository. These changes include updates to the CI/CD pipeline, such as configuring AWS CLI, installing Terraform, and integrating test execution within the CircleCI environment. The user's contributions focus on automating testing and build processes for security content, ensuring the integrity and functionality of detections and related resources. These efforts appear to be focused on automating the validation and deployment of security content within a CI/CD framework.
security-toolsdetectionsecuritycybersecuritysplunk
splunk/attack_data
Aug 2020 - May 2022
A repository of curated datasets from various attacks
Contributions:68 commits, 16 PRs, 43 pushes in 1 year 9 months
datasetsattacksdataset
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