Russ Thompson
Director Of Security Engineering 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 (21)
ddos10
dos-attack10
dos10
logstash9
throttling8
security8
linux7
mongodb7
logging7
compression6
elasticsearch6
elastic6
backup6
fluentd6
kibana6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
vigeek/mongosback
May 2012 - Jun 2020
Contributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 8 years 2 months
compressionnotificationsperformancebackupsbackup
vigeek/aws-elb-logs-to-logstash
Mar 2017 - Jul 2018
Consumes ELB & ALB logs and sends them to logstash for ingestion. Kibana dashboard included.
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 21 pushes in 1 year 3 months
kibana-dashboardconsumeselasticelbfluentd
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