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Collin Ballou

Lehi,UT

Summary

Driven Application Security Engineer with advanced technical competencies and communicative prowess. Delivers holistic, practical, and iterative improvements to complex software environments at scale in conjunction with greater engineering efforts.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Application Security Engineer

MX Technologies
02.2023 - Current
  • Led design and planning exercises for future and current software integrations.
  • Directed interactions with vendors to leverage and maximize technical capabilities of their software offerings and improve collaboration.
  • Developed and implemented personalized information security solutions using programming language expertise.
  • Updated technical documentation, product specifications and technical training materials.
  • Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams to design and implement new technology features.
  • Developed security metrics and technical analysis to give insight into performance and trends.

Application Security Analyst

MX Technologies
01.2021 - 02.2023
  • Researched known vulnerabilities to determine characteristics such as severity and exploitability.
  • Used research to verify or disqualify potential vulnerabilities.
  • Built threat models and mapped software and tool dependencies.
  • Analyzed network traffic and system logs to detect malicious activities.
  • Conducted security audits to identify vulnerabilities.
  • Worked with other teams to enforce security of applications and systems.
  • Educated and trained users on information security policies and procedures.

Computer Programmer (temporary)

JHL Supply
05.2015 - 08.2015
  • Developed web scraping and HTML/CSS formatting programs using programming languages such as Java and Python.
  • Having technical skills, I often taught others to use technology. While moving on from this position I taught a lady in our customer service department to operate software I wrote to perform her job efficiently.
  • Leveraged my skills with written and oral communication to explain complex issues to the CEO and report to him each day. As well I interpreted his needs into manageable projects that he tasked me with.
  • Used the Magenta CMS and a working knowledge of web platforms and tools.
  • Discussing internal company issues with the CEO produced manageable problems, which I helped solve with programs. I made a self updating management display for my manager, provided with configurations he could maintain.
  • Improved email delivery efficiency by 1600%

Education

Full-Stack Web Development

Lambda School
Online
11.2020

High School Diploma -

Oswego High School
Oswego, NY
2015

Skills

Languages/markups/frameworks:

  • Python
  • Javascript, Reactjs, Reduxjs, Material UI, Nodejs
  • Java
  • Go
  • Rust

Technologies, and APIs:

  • Certified AWS Cloud Practitioner
  • Snyk API, Bionicai API, Secure Code Warrior API, etc
  • Crowdstrike, Tenable, KnowBe4, PaloAlto Prisma, Wiz, Cequence, Puppet, etc
  • Burpsuite, firm grasp of Jason Haddix Bug Hunter Methodology
  • MySQL, PostGreSQL, SQLite
  • Linux systems, BASH, and docker
  • Knowledge of Git VCS, GitLab (API too), GitHub
  • Deployment in AWS, Heroku, Vercel, Netlify, and complex proprietary deployment strategies
  • Google Suite, including Google's App Script API
  • Backend REST development
  • Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery
  • Unit testing with react testing library, jest, and cypressio

Projects

Current employer:

  • Onboarding, policy creation, integration, and support for various application security tools.
  • Whole organization secret scanning audit tool.
  • Numerous scripts to automate scanning CI configs, synchronizing incongruent project landscapes for a Snyk integration.
  • SCW reporter slackbot - audits times spent metrics for Secure Code Warrior training participation across all of engineering.


Former:

  • Bridges To Prosperity Bridge Visualizations (AWS, Heroku, React, Material UI) - Worked closely with a team of data scientists and fellow full stack web developers design and implement improvements on internal visualization app for the bridge engineers at https://www.bridgestoprosperity.org/
  • Conway's Game of Life (React) - Created from scratch an implementation of Conway's Game of Life with additional features.
  • Personal Site (Heroku, Node, GitHub API, React, Material UI, Typed) - Created from the ground up with React and Material UI.
  • JWT authentication (Node) - For demonstration I've created projects utilizing Node.js to implement JWT authentication manually.
  • Receipt-OCR (Python) - A private project utilizing advanced OCR technology to classify, index, and archive receipts from images.
  • Ask me about other toy projects, and automations.

Timeline

Application Security Engineer

MX Technologies
02.2023 - Current

Application Security Analyst

MX Technologies
01.2021 - 02.2023

Computer Programmer (temporary)

JHL Supply
05.2015 - 08.2015

Full-Stack Web Development

Lambda School

High School Diploma -

Oswego High School

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