Thomas Connelly
Senior Cyber Security Engineer - Federal PKI at General Dynamics Information Technology
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Connelly is a Senior Cyber Security Engineer with over 20 years of IT experience and deep domain expertise in Federal PKI, infrastructure automation, and SIEM. He drives operational excellence for enterprise and government PKI ecosystems, having reduced server standup and patching times by over 75% through Ansible and IaC while working with HSMs, F5, VMware, and AWS services. Thomas blends hands-on cryptography work—implementing ACME issuance for RSA/ECDSA and post-quantum signatures—with pragmatic security engineering like SELinux policy creation and AppLocker deployments. He’s a seasoned SOC/CND leader and ArcSight content developer who also authors custom Splunk detections and log parsers for specialized devices such as Thales HSMs. Based in the DC–Baltimore area, he pairs a Master’s in Computer Forensics with a passion for continuous learning in cloud-native architectures and post-quantum cryptography.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Business, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Business at Indiana University BloomingtonMaster of Science - MS, Computer Forensics, Master of Science - MS, Computer Forensics at George Mason University
Github Skills (31)
log4j7
splunk7
x509certificates7
stream6
ansible-role6
trust5
logging5
webserver5
pipeline5
ansible5
security5
java5
proxy5
mitre-attack4
grok4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
connellyt/CTLogs-AcceptedRoots
Feb 2019 - Feb 2025
Root Certificates Accepted by Sectigo's CT Logs
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes in 6 years 1 month
sectigoct-logsroot-certificatessecuritycertificates
connellyt/graylog3-sepm-content-pack
Jan 2020 - Apr 2021
The SEPM content pack contains pipeline rules, a stream, and grok patterns
Contributions:36 commits, 20 PRs, 35 pushes in 1 year 2 months
pipelinegrok-patternsgrokpatternspack
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