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About Me

Brian is currently a Security Operations Centre (SOC) Analyst at Tata Consultancy Services, based in Donegal, Ireland, with a career built on cybersecurity and software engineering. Brian has worked in securing various sectors, including education, utilities, critical infrastructure and mission-critical systems. Over his career, he has built tools that have proven effective and secure.  He is a First-Class honours graduate in DevOps and has numerous awards in lighting design, blending a creative eye for detail with a high-tech skill set. 

Cyber Security & System Integrity 

Brian had progressed to an L2 (Tier 2) SOC analyst in quick succession, given his strong background in cloud and networks and his deep understanding of software.  Brian also has deep expertise in enterprise-level infrastructure. Brian was also placed on the incident response on-call team for the Ireland and UK regions. 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

DevOps & Infrastructure

  • Linux (Bash/Shell)

  • Docker

  • Git

  • Microsoft Azure

Mobile & Extension Ecosystems

  • Android SDK

  • Chrome API

  • React.js

  • Node.js



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