Paul Piscuc
Verified Expert in Engineering
DevSecOps Specialist, Senior Security Analyst and Developer
Paul is a DevSecOps specialist with expertise in the banking sector using cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure), Kubernetes, and Terraform. Paul built a threat intelligence platform that can ingest various formats of threat information, process them, and push the data to another system such as a firewall to block malicious IPs. He is an expert with Go and designing and implementing scalable infrastructures to the highest security standards.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Linux
The most amazing...
...system I've developed is a threat intelligence platform that is scalable, secure, and built on top of cloud technologies and Kubernetes.
Work Experience
Senior Security Analyst (Financial Sector)
Isabel Group
- Developed automation using Go for various security processes that helped reduce the time that a security analyst needs to perform security investigations.
- Performed security assessments for various infrastructures in the cloud and on-premises to comply with banking and international regulations. The infrastructure reviewed include Vanilla Kubernetes, OpenShift, AWS EKS, and GCP GKE.
- Designed and helped teams solve various technical or security issues in cloud infrastructures in Azure, GCP Google Cloud Platform and in Azure and implemented secure infrastructures in Azure and AWS.
Security Consultant (Telecommunications Sector)
Proximus
- Designed the architecture and performed the implementation of a scalable and automated SIEM solution in a MSSP environment (based on ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager MSSP multi-tier architecture and distributed Splunk Enterprise Security).
- Built CI/CD pipelines for SOC (Security Operation Center) team using Ansible, Docker , Go, Python, and Jenkins.
- Implemented network security solutions like Checkpoint VPN, F5 LTM, Imperva Web Application Firewall to secure customer's networks.
Security Consultant (A Security Solutions Distributor)
Provision
- Designed and implemented web application, vulnerability scanning, application firewalls, IPS, and database encryption infrastructures for customers in the banking and pharmaceuticals sector.
- Assisted customers in performing digital forensics investigations using Guidance Encase Forensic and Access Data FTK.
- Assisted companies to debug application performance issues, visualize, and detect network issues with the help of various tools, including Riverbed Cascade.
System Administrator (Cloud Provider)
Appnor
- Managed approximately 250 Linux servers in Europe and US and helped build a small datacenter for the company.
- Wrote Puppet modules to automate and manage the Linux fleet of servers.
- Designed and implemented Firewalls, DNS servers, DDoS, mail, and other types of services using Debian and Ubuntu systems.
Software Analyst (Transport Sector)
Transmeridian
- Designed and implemented the company's network and IT infrastructure.
- Guided the management of the company's software, implemented. database replication, database optimization, and server load balancing.
- Wrote procedures and disaster recovery procedures to safely restore the company's data.
Experience
Threat Intelligence Platform for Developers
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Skills
Paradigms
DevOps, DevSecOps, Secure Code Best Practices
Platforms
Kubernetes, Linux, OpenShift, Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, QualysGuard, AccessData, Imperva Incapsula
Languages
Go, Python
Tools
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Amazon EKS, GitLab CI/CD, Ansible, Splunk, Terraform, Jenkins, ArcSight, Puppet, VPN
Industry Expertise
Network Security
Other
Web Security, Security Analysis, CI/CD Pipelines, Nomad, Economics, Computer Science, Statistics, IT Security, Reverse Engineering, Security Design, Endpoint Security, Security Architecture, Digital Forensics, DNS, Firewalls, IP Networks, Cisco, Database Encryption
Frameworks
Django
Storage
Elasticsearch, SAFE Network
Education
Master's Degree in IT Security
Academy of Economic Studies - Bucharest, Romania
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Academy of Economis Studies - Bucharest, Romania
Certifications
Certified Kubernetes Administrator
Linux Foundation
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
AWS
CISSP Certified Information Security Professional
ISC2
FireEye Junior System Engineer
FireEye
HP ATP - TippingPoint Security
HP ExpertOne
HP ArcSight ESM Administrator
HP ExpertOne
SafeNet DataSecure - ProtectDB Certified Engineer
SafeNet
Imperva Security Specialist
Imperva
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