Tony Cavella
Senior Lead Engineer at Booz Allen Hamilton
Glen Burnie, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolTony Cavella is a Senior Lead Engineer with over a decade of experience designing, hardening, and operating complex virtual and tactical systems for DoD and enterprise environments. He combines deep Linux/UNIX and virtualization expertise (Red Hat Virtualization/KVM, VMware) with hands-on skills in automation (bash, Ansible), containerization, PKI and network/security testing to deliver resilient, auditable platforms. A former Army systems lead, he has deployed and maintained mission-critical collection and secure-access systems under austere conditions and led accreditation and CCRI/SAV/C&A compliance efforts. At Booz Allen he builds realistic lab environments that replicate enterprise WAN/LAN/cloud interactions to expose security gaps and automate device backups and repeatable test workflows. Known for rapid platform mastery and pragmatic scripting, he blends operational discipline with engineering rigor to translate tactical requirements into scalable, secure solutions.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Cyber/Computer Forensics and Counterterrorism, Bachelor’s Degree, Cyber/Computer Forensics and Counterterrorism at University of Maryland University CollegeHigh School Graduate, High School Graduate at Calvary Baptist Church AcademyComputer Science, Computer Science at Anne Arundel Community College
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Github Skills (52)
dashboard10
blocker10
dnsmasq10
internet10
dhcp10
shell10
raspberry-pi10
pki8
authority8
certificate-generation8
cdp7
bash7
hosting7
ansible-role7
ocsp6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
acavella/trustedcore-ra
Dec 2022 - Aug 2023
A custom registration authority client to be used with the ISC CertAgent RAMI API, which allows for the automated generation of single or bulk x.509 certificates.
Contributions:8 releases, 1 review, 15 PRs in 7 months
apicertificate-authoritypkiregistrationcertificates
acavella/packer-Rocky9
Oct 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:1 release, 13 commits, 10 pushes in 5 months
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