Todd Murchison
Senior Cloud Architect at Palo Alto Networks
Greater Phoenix Area United States
Summary
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SeniorTodd Murchison is a Senior Cloud Architect with 11 years of focused experience designing and securing large-scale AWS environments and a two-decade background in enterprise networking and UNIX systems. He blends deep cloud expertise (VPC, IAM, CloudFormation, CloudTrail) with hands-on network engineering (BGP/OSPF, Cisco/Juniper/F5) and automation skills in Python, Docker, and infrastructure-as-code. At Palo Alto Networks and Adobe he led VPC architecture, compliance-driven IAM standards, and cloud automation, and earlier roles include designing 24/7 redundant e-commerce and messaging data centers. Todd also contributes to open-source security orchestration work—adding backend integration logic and tests to the Cortex XSOAR content repo—demonstrating practical experience tying network/infra telemetry into security automation. Based in Greater Phoenix, he pairs low-level protocol knowledge with cloud-native patterns to deliver resilient, auditable systems.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (6)
python10
pytest9
testing9
api9
apim9
network-security8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
demisto/content
Oct 2019 - Mar 2020
Demisto is now Cortex XSOAR. Automate and orchestrate your Security Operations with Cortex XSOAR's ever-growing Content Repository. Pull Requests are always welcome and highly appreciated!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 reviews, 190 commits, 25 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Todd primarily contributed to the ARIA Packet Intelligence integration. Their commits focused on implementing functionality within the `ARIAPacketIntelligence.py` file, likely adding new features or modifying existing ones. This work involved defining helper functions for tasks like processing port ranges, IP addresses, generating named rule data, and handling alert instructions. The changes also included creating and modifying test cases for the integration to ensure functionality.
containerscortexsecurity-toolsorchestrationsecurity-operations
toddm92/aws
Sep 2014 - Mar 2017
Contributions:349 commits, 262 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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