Matthew Burket
Education
Iowa State University
Bachelors of Science: Software Engineering
Minor: Cybersecurity
Experience
Red Hat
Software Engineer, June 2021 - Present
Businessolver
Security Engineer, February 2019 - June 2021
- Investigated and mitigated cybersecurity incidents, including phishing emails,
account compromises, and cloud infrastructure misconfigurations
- Identify changes that could improve the company's security posture
- Managed the response and coordinated remediation efforts for penetration testing the company received
- Oversaw and verified remediation of security problems and findings
- Architected and implemented a revised strategy for vulnerability scanning and assessment to improve rapid
detection of security and configuration issues
- Designed and executed a modernization effort of the organization's public key infrastructure
- Implemented a new endpoint protection system for the organization, reducing management
overhead
- Support compliance audit efforts
ISEAGE Lab, Iowa State University
ISEAGE (Internet-Scale Event Attack Generation Environment) Lab is a student ran research lab at
Iowa State University that puts on five cyber defense competition per year. Lab members are responsible for
maintaining the hardware and software
systems, creating the scenarios, and running the competitions.
Research Assistant, March 2016 - December 2018
- Worked as part of a team to organize Cyber Defense Competitions
- Served in numerous leadership roles for the lab and competitions
- Assisted competitors in the build-out and securing of their systems before the competitions
- Developed security related challenges, applications, and systems for use in the competitions
- Rearchitected and implemented the network and virtualization systems that hosted the competitions,
significantly improving performance, security, scalability and ease of management
- Administered a VMWare based virtualization environment
- Worked primarily on Linux based systems
- Maintained hardware and custom software used by the lab
- Used advanced networking technologies to maintain a lab environment that simulates the Internet
DuPont Pioneer
Software Development Intern, Summer 2018
- Worked as part of an agile software development team
- Reduced time to market, streamlined the release process, and reduced developer overhead by
creating a tool to manage feature flags
Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations
Software Development Intern (Information Technology), Summers 2014 - 2017
- Worked with management to create project requirements
- Created software that supported and improved a fast-paced manufacturing environment
Projects
DNStats
Creator and Maintainer
DNStats is an
open source project
that crawls the top
one million websites daily, looking for DNS best practices and common
misconfigurations of SPF, DMARC, CAA, and other related standards. The project is written in Python and uses
a Celery based
distributed task queue.
Skills
Operating Systems: Linux, Windows, and macOS
Languages: Python, C#, Java, Ruby, C++, and C
Development Tools: Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, JetBrains products, Atlassian suite, GitLab, GitHub,
and Vim
OS Tools: systemd, SELinux, and iptables
Databases: PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, and RabbitMQ
Infrastructure Tools: Splunk, Ansible, Active Directory, Active Directory Certificate
Services, Group Policy, FreeIPA, and JAMF Pro
Security Analysis Tools: Wireshark, Burp Suite, SQLMap, DotPeek, and OpenSCAP
Source Control: Git, Mercurial, and SVN
Development Process: Agile, DevSecOps, and Continuous Deployment
Volunteering
ISEAGE Lab - Iowa State University
- Participate as a member of the red team for cyber defense competitions
- Help review scenarios before release
Harvest Bible Chapel - Grimes, IA
- Mix front of house audio for services