Will Deem
Manager, Security Engineering at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWill Deem is a security engineering manager and digital forensics specialist with six years of experience across federal and cloud environments, now leading security engineering at AWS. He combines deep Linux host-forensics expertise and Python-driven DFIR automation with hands-on incident response and team leadership honed at CISA and the U.S. Coast Guard. Will has contributed to open-source DFIR tooling—improving stability, Unicode handling, and logging in the cisagov/CHIRP project—demonstrating a focus on practical, analyst-centered improvements. Known for generating pragmatic solutions that boost analyst effectiveness, he brings a resourceful, proactive mindset to high-pressure investigations and operational security.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Cybersecurity, Bachelors Cybersecurity at SANS Technology Institute
Github Skills (12)
cybersecurity10
debug10
dfm10
dfu10
yara10
python10
dfd10
dfa10
spring-ioc9
io9
filesystem9
dryioc9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cisagov/CHIRP
Mar 2021 - Jun 2021
A DFIR tool written in Python.
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:16 reviews, 46 commits, 23 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Will primarily contributed to enhancing the functionality and stability of the "chirp" tool, which is designed for Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR). Their commits focused on addressing bugs, improving the handling of Unicode encoding, and optimizing performance. They also introduced features such as file path normalization and improved logging capabilities.
pythondfircisacybersecurityioc
DeemOnSecurity/deemonsecurity.com
Nov 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:76 pushes, 2 branches in 8 days
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