Timmy Nguyen
Security Engineer
Houston
Summary
Security professional with 4+ years of experience specializing in Security Operations; including Endpoint Security, Detection Engineering, and SIEM management. Skilled in Red Teaming and Cloud Security. Key projects include purple teaming assessments and developing enterprise security solutions. Proficient with tools like MSFT Sentinel, MDE, Intune, and Crowdstrike.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
2
2
years of post-secondary education
7
7
Certifications
Work History
Security Instructional Specialist
@ EDX
09.2021 - 06.2025
- Assisted students with curriculum and assignments during class.
- Delivered curriculum covering Cloud Sec Architecture (Azure), Linux Administration, Windows Systems Hardening, Blue Team tools, and Pen-Testing.
- Graded homework, moderated Slack channels for class discussions, and uploaded class materials to GitHub daily.
Security Engineer
@ Office of Personnel Management (Contractor)
04.2023 - 05.2025
- Provided security engineering expertise in Microsoft security solutions and other enterprise tools.
- Managed Endpoint Security configuration, deployment, and policy enforcement using Intune/GPO.
- Decommissioned older EDR agents and migrated all devices to MDE.
- Remediated devices with onboarding issues, missing agent, and misconfigured policies.
- Ensure security coverage and visibility on all systems such as workstations, Windows/Linux servers, Kubernetes, VM's.
- Provided secondary support for SIEM administration within the SOC, automating tasks using SOAR & CTI tools to improve efficiency and endpoint.
IT Analyst / Associate Security Engineer
@ SolarWinds
08.2021 - 04.2023
- Promoted from IT Analyst to Security Engineer within 8 months (Aug 2021 - Apr 2022).
- Managed XDR solutions such as MDE and Crowdstrike, improving endpoint protection and IR.
- Led threat hunting, triage incidents, threat intel, and detection engineering program.
- Created and automated SOAR playbooks to streamline SOC tasks and increase operational efficiency.
- Conducted Atomic Red Team testing to identify detection gaps and improve SIEM/SOAR capabilities.
Education
Associate of Science - Cyber Security
Central Texas College
08.2020 - 05.2022
Bootcamp Certification - Cyber Security
Rice University
01.2020 - 2020.07
Skills
- Detection & Response
- Threat Hunting
- Tool Engineering
- Endpoint Security
- Endpoint Administration
- Linux Administration
- Cloud Security (Azure)
- SIEM/SOAR Engineering
Certification
SC-200 Security Operations Analyst
Timeline
Security Engineer
@ Office of Personnel Management (Contractor)
04.2023 - 05.2025
Security Instructional Specialist
@ EDX
09.2021 - 06.2025
IT Analyst / Associate Security Engineer
@ SolarWinds
08.2021 - 04.2023
Associate of Science - Cyber Security
Central Texas College
08.2020 - 05.2022
Bootcamp Certification - Cyber Security
Rice University
01.2020 - 2020.07
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