Daniel Monteagudo — Portfolio

Experience

Data Operations Lead

Search On Dora

March 2022 – October 2024 New York, NY

Coordinated acquisition and management of various datapoints used to improve search.
Managed Kubernetes cluster controlling upkeep of up to 8 blockchain nodes.
Coordinated terabytes of data-scraping and pipelining projects between AWS S3, DynamoDB, and Aurora.
Developed and maintained more than 20 Python and Bash scripts managing data upkeep and updates.
Documented and developed mitigation strategies for customer-reported security vulnerabilities.
Oversaw multi-cloud migration between Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform.

Security Engineer I

Security Innovation

August 2021 – March 2022 Seattle, WA

Conducted over 20 security assessments of web applications using Burp Suite, Postman, OWASP ZAP, and custom tooling.
Verified the security of multiple applications within Amazon Web Services cloud environment.
Delivered timely reports of hundreds of security findings to a number of customers.
Developed and presented mitigation plans for significant vulnerabilities found in the course of testing.
Communicated security vulnerabilities found through testing to various high-level stakeholders at client companies.

Security Engineering Intern

Security Innovation

May 2019 – August 2021 Seattle, WA

Assisted security engineers in reporting security issues found during the course of testing.
Tested and found issues with the security of hardware solutions.
Utilized Burp Suite, Postman, and OWASP ZAP, among other tools to assess the security posture of numerous client services.

Data Management Consultant

Macmillan Learning

August 2018 – January 2019 New York, NY

Managed data pipelining tasks previously set up during internship.
Implemented improved data processing and upload using Salesforce API in R.
Designed and maintained 3 R Shiny dashboards for overview of data cleanliness and correctness.
Updated and maintained PowerBI dashboard for sales insights.
Developed Excel and Google Sheets formulas used to extract insights from sales data.

Projects

Cloud Go

January – February 2026 @ Seattle, WA

go.sky.boo ↗

Developed and marketed an app for playing Go with friends online, built on Bluesky's AT Protocol.
Over 50 games played in first month.
Taught two dozen new players how to play via tutorial and study tab.

Volunteering, Teacher

Seattle Go Center

January 2025 – February 2026 @ Seattle, WA

Assisted in set up and teardown of Go center events.
Taught over 150 people of all ages how to play the board game Go.

Volunteering, Museum & Shop

Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Washington (JCCCW)

January 2025 – February 2026 @ Seattle, WA

Part time role (eight hours, two days a week).
Researched hundreds of undocumented artifacts and input them into PastPerfect.
Fielded questions in person and via phone for resale shop.
Sold and tracked inventory of hundreds of items via Thrive and Square POS.
Conducted research on notable families to help enrich obituaries and guide museum programming.
Cleaned and organized shop display and inventory.

Bid to Purchase the Constitution

Viral marketing project

November 2021

Project with online partners attempting to buy one of the last original copies of the US constitution.
Raised over $50 million from individual and institutional investors.
Viral campaign online garnered over 70,000 Twitter followers.
Ultimately outbid by Citadel Securities.

Capstone Election Security Assessment

Rochester Institute of Technology

2021

Coordinated with Election Systems and Software to organize a security test of a flagship voting machine.
Developed more than a dozen threat models of realistic election security scenarios.
Conducted rigorous tests of production hardware and software security, resulting in significant findings.
Delivered thorough report of all vulnerabilities found in LaTeX format.
Established a professional relationship between RIT and ES&S, coordinated creation of RIT Election Security Labs.

Education

2017 – 2021

Rochester Institute of Technology

Rochester, NY

Summa Cum Laude · 3.78 GPA

B.S. Computer & Information Systems Security / Information Assurance

Minor in Criminal Justice

Maintained Dean's List accolade for all 4 years
Recipient of "Top Capstone Project of the Year" award within major
Competed on Blue Team in five Red Team / Blue Team competitions
Blue Team competitions as part of Security Club RITSec

Skills

◆ Industry Knowledge

VirtualizationNetwork SecurityMachine LearningCloud ComputationData WarehousingInformation Security StandardsDocumentation

◆ Security & Analysis

Incident ResponseDFIR FrameworksThreat ModelingIntrusion Detection (Snort IDS)OWASP Top 10Active DirectoryCisco iOSAttacker Mindset

◆ Tools & Technologies

PythonBashJavaCSQLMongoDBPostgreSQLVue.jsNode.jsLinux InternalsR

◆ Other Skills

Data CommunicationData AnalysisCollaborative Problem SolvingStatistical TechniquesMachine Learning Methods