Russ Thompson
Director Of DevSecOps at Sagent
New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolRuss Thompson is a hands-on security engineering leader with 15+ years building and securing cloud-native, high-availability systems across AWS, Azure and GCP. As Director of Security Engineering at Sagent and a long-time DevSecOps practitioner, he specializes in embedding automated security checks into CI/CD pipelines, incident response, and compliance for regulated environments (HIPAA, SOC2, PCI). He brings deep practical experience with container and Kubernetes security, infrastructure-as-code, custom scripting (Python, Bash, PowerShell) and a tool-driven approach that spans Burp, ZAP, Nuclei, Cloud Custodian and eBPF monitoring. A pragmatic architect who has led pre-IPO and enterprise security programs, he also spends time as an independent consultant—an unusual mix that keeps him technically current while solving diverse real-world threats. Based in New Jersey, he pairs operational savvy with a bias for automation and measurable security outcomes.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts and Sciences - AAS, Information Systems, Associate of Arts and Sciences - AAS, Information Systems at Camden County College
English, German, Scottish Gaelic
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (10)
throttling10
ddos10
mongodb9
logstash9
compression9
linux8
elasticsearch8
kibana8
nessus1
yara1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
vigeek/linfo
Nov 2011 - Oct 2012
Contributions:8 commits in 11 months
vigeek/ddoSutil
Mar 2011 - Sep 2021
ddoSutil (ddos utilities) is a series of Linux scripts intended to help deal with various ddos attack methods
Contributions:46 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 10 years 7 months
ddoslinux
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