Blake Miller
Scottsdale,AZ
Summary
Cybersecurity technologist with hands-on experience in SOC operations, detection engineering, and security automation across enterprise SIEM and XDR platforms. Strong background in Python automation, cross-platform query development, and data-driven reporting to support operational security and decision-making. Mission-oriented, adaptable, and well-suited for high-impact federal technology initiatives.
Overview
1
1
year of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Associate Product Dev Engineer
Lumifi Cyber
Scottsdale, Arizona
10.2025 - Current
- Assist in translating and standardizing security detection queries across multiple SIEM and XDR platforms to support scalable security solutions.
- Built backend SOAR automation for Splunk and Elastic environments, reducing manual SOC workflows, and accelerating alert handling.
- Tuned and optimized existing detections to improve signal quality and reduce false positives in production environments.
- Stay up to date on current trends and apply new detections to client environments
SOC Internship
Lumifi Cyber
Scottsdale, Arizona
05.2025 - 10.2025
- Consolidated endpoint logs via jump servers and produced daily, weekly, and monthly Power BI reports for client visibility and SLA tracking.
- Triaged Exabeam cases via Zendesk, escalating incidents according to severity and response requirements.
- Converted 90+ internal SharePoint client documents into structured Confluence pages using markdown-based frameworks and embedded response documentation.
- Created Python scripts to scrape tickets via CSV datasets for specific tasks and data points.
Education
High School Diploma -
Chaparral High School
Scottsdale, AZ05-2011
Some College (No Degree) - Computer Science
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZSkills
- Threat Detection
- SIEM/SOAR/XDR
- Python Scripting
- Query Languages
- Linux/Windows/Mac
- OSINT
Technical Project - Venator.exe
- Security automation home-project created with Python, focused on accelerating threat investigation and detection workflows.
- Implements IoC ingestion, enrichment, and normalization to support consistent analysis across security platforms.
- Auto-generates threat hunting queries based on the desired tool and the provided IoC's
- Designed to reduce analyst manual effort by standardizing investigative logic and enabling repeatable, scalable threat-hunting workflows.
Certification
CompTIA Sec+
Timeline
Associate Product Dev Engineer
Lumifi Cyber
10.2025 - Current
SOC Internship
Lumifi Cyber
05.2025 - 10.2025
High School Diploma -
Chaparral High School
Some College (No Degree) - Computer Science
University of Arizona