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About Me

Brian is a Security Operations Centre (SOC) Analyst at Tata Consultancy Services in Donegal, Ireland, with a career in cybersecurity and software engineering. Brian has worked to secure a range of sectors. He has built tools that have proven effective and secure.  He holds a First-Class honours degree in DevOps and Applied Computing. 

Cyber Security & System Integrity 

Brian quickly progressed to L2 (Tier 2) SOC analyst, given his strong background in cloud and networks and his deep understanding of software.  Brian also has deep expertise in enterprise-level infrastructure. These are the areas he specialises in:

  • SIEM Engineering & Incident Response

  • Cloud Infrastructure (Azure)

  • CI/CD & Secure Software Delivery

Programming Languages 

Core Development Languages

  • Java

  • JavaScript

  • Python

  • PHP

  • C#

Web & Data Technologies

  • SQL

  • HTML5

  • CSS3

  • JSON

  • Reactjs

  • Node.js

  • Nextjs

DevOps & Infrastructure

  • Linux (Bash/Shell)

  • Docker

  • Git

  • Microsoft Azure

Mobile & Extension Ecosystems

  • Android SDK

  • Chrome API

  • React.js

  • Node.js


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