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This is all self hosted and the full stack is maintained and run myself.

Colin Tufts

E-Mail: colin@colintufts.com

Website: https://colintufts.com/

LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/colintufts/

Keybase Proof: https://keybase.io/colintufts

Employment History

¶ Firmex (Cloud Security Engineer)

July 2023 - Current

Actively monitor and research cyber threats impacting business operations or technology infrastructure

Handle Incident Management and Incident Response, leading the organization in cyber threat management.

Conduct Vulnerability Management and Penetration Testing, and ensure compliance with PCI, HIPAA, GDPR, SOC

Work collaboratively within a team of security professionals across the organization on security best practices and product support

Collaborate with engineering, infrastructure services, and application development to integrate technology solutions

¶ Industrious (DevSecOps Engineer)

March 2022 - February 2023

Working with Github actions and other build tools such as CircleCI in a CI/CD process to build and deploy to AWS cloud environment

Maintain, update ACLs, VPC environments, to keep all systems secure.

Containerize and upgrade legacy applications to provide better adaptability and provide continuous delivery of the applications.

Deploying/implementing Grafana, Prometheus, and other monitoring tools for observability of traditional services and micro-services.

Monitoring all environments (via tools like Elastic Beanstalk, EC2, S3, Cloudwatch, Cloudtrail) acting preemptively to prevent system failures and outages

¶ Deluxe (Cloud Administrator)

November 2020 - March 2022

Member of the production SRE team during incidents and outages with investigation of stack / node / container failures.

Grafana dashboard and Observability SME.

Container triage and management SME.

Turbonomic (Application Performance Management) SME.

Incident responder, including threat and vulnerability management.

¶ IMS (Systems Administrator)

August 2019 - November 2020

Created and Implemented auditing system, reducing auditing timeline from 3 weeks to 30 minutes.

Configured Nagios and Centreon monitoring scripts for production systems.

Liason to executive leadership team for monitoring and observability.

Worked with management and external customers to establish and evaluate SLAs and SLOs

AWS SME for multi-cloud environment.

Code Portfolio

python_resume

A showcase of Python/Flask/Jinja2/HTML(5)/Bootstrap/JQuery used to both generate colintufts.com and my hardcopy resume.

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