Zach Rasmor
Manager, Cyber Software Engineering at Lockheed Martin
Virginia, United States
Summary
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SeniorZach Rasmor is a cyber software engineering manager with 11 years of experience, currently leading the Global Defense & Intelligence team at Lockheed Martin from Virginia. He combines hands-on backend and DevOps expertise with strategic leadership to deliver secure, production-grade systems for defense customers. Zach contributes to high-impact open-source security tooling, including fixes and threading/logging improvements to the well-regarded Suricata intrusion detection project, reflecting deep familiarity with network security internals. He excels at translating complex operational requirements into maintainable code and resilient architectures while mentoring engineers across distributed teams. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, Zach balances rigorous security practices with practical delivery in constrained environments.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (14)
c1710
cybersecurity10
network-security10
threaded10
c1110
thread10
hyper-threading10
intrusion-detection10
multithreading10
sys10
suricata10
logging9
automated-tests8
git7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
OISF/suricata
Apr 2015 - Apr 2016
Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine developed by the OISF and the Suricata community.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:12 commits, 13 PRs, 14 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Zach primarily contributed to the Suricata network intrusion detection system by fixing bugs and implementing new features related to logging and thread management. Their work included addressing a typo that prevented eve syslog settings from being accessible and adding support for generic eve-log prefixes. They also refactored thread naming conventions and updated thread creation processes, demonstrating familiarity with the system's internal architecture and its operational modes. Furthermore, their contributions included managing and updating thread creation and management.
git-repositorynsmipssecurityids
lmco/vortex-ids
Nov 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:10 commits, 9 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 2 months
vortexdata-streamsurveillanceidstcp-stream
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