Summary
William Akin is a senior cybersecurity engineer with six years of professional experience who blends deep incident response, forensics, and network architecture expertise with practical AI and prompt-engineering work to tackle modern threat landscapes. At T-Mobile he advises senior leadership, leads cross-functional initiatives, and prototypes AI/LLM-driven intelligence and detection workflows using Splunk and Python. His background includes high-stakes IR and reverse-engineering roles at Micron, NCC Group, and Delta Dental where he built SIEMs, led insider-threat investigations, and coordinated responses with law enforcement. A long-time practitioner and mentor, he volunteers with the Marine Corps Cyber Auxiliary and serves on the board of the Police Data Accessibility Project, applying technical skill to public-good efforts. Neurodivergent and self-directed, he rose from early internships at Boeing to drive enterprise security programs and translate complex technical risk into pragmatic remediation.
5 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Political Science, Pre-Law Studies, Political Science, Pre-Law Studies at University of Idaho
Bachelor of Science - BS, Cybersecurity, 4.0, Bachelor of Science - BS, Cybersecurity, 4.0 at Purdue University Global