Summary
Thomas Gardner is a Staff Detection Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience in incident response, malware analysis, SIEM monitoring, and automation across large enterprise environments. He progressed through technical roles at CenturyLink and Red Canary, where he built detection engineering capabilities, automated IR workflows, and protected tens of thousands of users. A practiced public speaker and community contributor, he’s delivered multiple talks on Nmap, PowerShell, and malicious document analysis and maintains a home Cuckoo lab for practical research. Equally curious off the clock, he’s building web tools with Flask and honing languages on Duolingo, a sign of his continuous learning mindset and interdisciplinary approach to security.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of Missouri