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Franklin Diaz

Email: frank378@gmail.com
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  • Provide technical championship and automation expertise
  • Improving people, process, and tools.
  • Building secure, modern, cloud-native infrastructure.
  • Helping teams and organizations on their journey to the cloud.
  • Education

    Roosevelt University - Chicago, IL

    B.S. Computer Science
    Minor: Mathematics

    Northwestern University - Evanston, IL

    M.S. Information Systems

    DePaul University - Chicago, IL

    M.S. Network Security/Network Engineering

    Publications
  • Project paper: A Cloud Native Security Lab
  • Experience

    Palo Alto Networks Principal Engineer - Security Infra Automation - 2020-Current

    • Design, develop, and deploy infrastructure as Code (IaC) for customers in public cloud environments (GCP, OCI, AWS, and Azure) based on best security practices and reference architectures.
    • API automation work.

    Salesforce Senior Security Engineer - Bellevue, WA - 2014-2019

    • Our team designed, built and maintained an in-house large scale security log collection solution to process over 1B security events per day.
    • Built & maintained Data Science Pipeline. We pushed the security logs through a normalizer into a Hadoop cluster. Built and maintained the Airflow setup to manage and execute our data models.
    • Built out data science pipeline in the FedRamp High GovCloud environment in AWS.
    • Built out large scale packet capture solution on internal company IT networks.
    • Built and maintained the CI/CD pipeline architecture for the SDE team.

    Indiana University Principal Research Software Engineer - 2012-2013

    • Test Architect in Software Defined Networking Lab, designed test cases and directed test efforts on openflow networks.

    Nokia Siemens Networks Research & Development Engineer - 2011-2012

    Motorola Senior Staff Engineer - 1995-2011

    • CDMA Cellular base station product development, test and deployment.
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