Xavier Pedraza
Incident Response Handler at Alaka`ina Foundation Family of Companies
Tampa, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXavier Pedraza is an Incident Response Handler and IT specialist with 8 years of experience combining DoD cyber operations and hands-on systems administration, backed by a Top Secret (SCI) clearance and service in the U.S. Army Reserves. He has led incident response and SIEM monitoring (Splunk, TRELLIX, Varonis), coordinated with Federal/DoD CIRTs, and implemented STIGs and vulnerability remediation across classified networks. His background spans tactical SATCOM and JBLOX networking to enterprise HBSS/ACAS/Hardened-Config roles, giving him a rare blend of field-deployable communications and enterprise security engineering. Xavier has managed risk for multi-million-dollar assets, overseen firewall and HIDS/HIPS operations, and driven compliance and POAM processes for DOJ and DoD environments. Known for calm, clear stakeholder communication during major outages, he pairs military discipline with pragmatic technical troubleshooting.
9 years of coding experience
Northern Virginia Community College
English, Spanish
Github Skills (133)
minecraft10
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javascript10
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chromium10
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paper10
html10
paper-server10
node-module10
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java10
github-pages10
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
WasabiThumb/xclaim
May 2022 - Sep 2022
A better chunk claiming system for Paper servers
Contributions:49 releases, 18 reviews, 32 commits in 4 months
paper-serverclaimjavaminecraftminecraft-plugin
WasabiThumb/jtoml
May 2025 - Jun 2026
Fully compliant Gson-like TOML library for Java 8+
Contributions:15 releases, 5 reviews, 58 PRs in 1 year 1 month
gsonjavatomlconfigparser
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