Shane Mcfly
Senior Cybersecurity Researcher at National Laboratory of the Rockies
Golden, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolShane Mcfly is a Senior Cybersecurity Researcher with 11 years of hands-on experience securing cyber-physical systems and the clean energy transition, currently based at the National Laboratory of the Rockies and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. He bridges applied research and operational engagement, working directly with federal agencies, critical infrastructure stakeholders, and solution integrators to harden distributed energy resources, grid-edge devices, and SCADA/ICS environments. An educator as well as a researcher, he teaches Cyber Physical Systems Security at Colorado School of Mines and develops curriculum for undergraduate and graduate audiences. His background spans system administration, containerization, SDN, and embedded avionics security from roles at Boeing and university research labs, giving him a pragmatic blend of lab-scale experimentation and production-focused tooling. Shane is completing a PhD in Computer Science and combines academic rigor with a practitioner’s knack for reproducible research—true to his favorite quote, he documents experiments so “screwing around” becomes science.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Colorado School of MinesMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignMaster of Science (M.S.) Cybersecurity, Master of Science (M.S.) Cybersecurity at Johns Hopkins Engineering for ProfessionalsAssociate of Science (AS) Associates of Engineering Science Computer Science Physics, Associate of Science (AS) Associates of Engineering Science Computer Science Physics at Parkland College
French, Spanish
Github Skills (29)
logstash9
steam8
docker-compose8
elk8
compose8
docker-image8
wine7
docker7
elasticsearch6
elastic6
epic6
assertion6
kibana6
launcher5
linux5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
irish-bug/sniffy
Dec 2014 - Apr 2017
Contributions:12 commits, 6 pushes in 2 years 4 months
irish-bug/SniffyDB
Oct 2015 - Jan 2020
Evolution of Sniffy to include database functionality, visualization and analytics
Contributions:2 PRs, 31 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 4 months
analyticsevolutionsqldatabasevisualization
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