Wylie Bayes
Director, Defensive Cyber at Dark Wolf
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolWylie Bayes is a seasoned defensive cyber leader with nine years of experience designing and executing offensive and defensive operations across government and enterprise environments, now serving as Director, Defensive Cyber at Dark Wolf. He combines deep systems and network engineering roots from naval and Air Force deployments with hands-on Red Team expertise—running adversarial emulations, cloud penetration tests, phishing campaigns, and DevSecOps integrations. Notable for practical research-driven findings, he discovered a Hyper-V host route hijack technique and novel ways to abuse Tenable Nessus, and holds an active TS/SCI clearance. Comfortable briefing executives and mentoring technical teams, he repeatedly improves operational security posture through automation (PowerShell/shell) and SIEM/EPP/Vulnerability tooling. Based in Colorado Springs, he blends pragmatic virtualization and cloud operations experience with mission-focused cyber defense for high-assurance customers.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Network Management, Bachelor’s Degree Network Management at Westwood University OnlineHigh School Diploma General Studies, High School Diploma General Studies at Hoehne High School
English
Stackoverflow
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34kreached
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Github Skills (14)
powershell9
command-line7
windows7
linux7
macos7
shell7
netcore6
linux-distro5
pattern-matching5
ids4
intrusion-detection3
security2
monitoring2
threat-hunting1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
forgottentq/powershell
May 2017 - Oct 2020
Just random powershell things I've put together.
Contributions:48 commits, 47 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
powershell
forgottentq/nginx-sneaky-chatgpt
Apr 2023 - Apr 2023
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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