Shane Unger
Technical Lead at Sophos
Underhill, Vermont, United States
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Top SchoolShane Unger is a Technical Lead and senior software engineer with nine years of experience designing cloud-native, production-grade backend systems for security platforms. He currently leads efforts to integrate AI agents and large language models into Sophos Taegis, translating analyst intent into executable queries, automations, and scalable analytics. Previously he led Taegis agent backend engineering at Secureworks, owning agent registration, high-throughput telemetry ingestion, fleet management, and staged rollout systems for large deployments. Known for clean, maintainable code and a functional-programming (Haskell) obsession, he combines hands-on architecture with mentoring and cross-functional collaboration to operationalize ML-driven workflows in SOCs. Based in Underhill, Vermont, he brings a rare mix of security-focused engineering and a musician’s precision from formal percussion training.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Percussion Instruments, Percussion Instruments at Musicians Institute
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
shaneu/learning-to-code
Feb 2019 - Jul 2024
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
shaneu/destructuring-challenges
Aug 2019 - Apr 2020
Contributions:4 PRs, 4 pushes, 3 branches in 7 months
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