I apply my deep understanding of computers and strong empathy for humans to make computers better at meeting the needs of humans.

• Email: edward@delaporte.us
• Website: https://edward.delaporte.us
• GitHub: EdTheDev
• Resume: Resume as PDF

• Bachelor's Degree In Computer Science from the College of Engineering at UIUC in 2006.
• Writing software professionally since the year 2000, and unprofessionally since 1988.
• Specialized in Cybersecurity since 2006.
• Leading software development teams since 2011.
• Has built a lot of websites and integrations for a lot of purposes with a lot of different technologies.
• Applies effective work habits and great interpersonal skills.
• Cybersecurity: Hacking, Hardening, Teaching, Mentorship
• Windows Tech: Microsoft C Sharp (C#), ASP.Net, Model View Controller (MVC), Razor Partials, Active Directory, React.js, jQuery, Git, NuGet, PowerShell, Azure DevOps, Windows Subsystem for Linux
• Linux Tech: Python, WSGI, Apache, NGinx, Django, REST, JSON, LDAP, Linux shell, Syslog, SQL, GitHub enterprise, AWS, Docker, Podman, Vi

• Mentors developers, security engineers, and researchers across campus on vulnerability remediation.
• Creates open lines of communication between campus researcher developers and Cybersecurity.
• Created key resources for Open Source procedures, including a decision tree, product end-of-life language, and vulnerability disclosure.
• Established collaboration patterns supporting shared open source tools with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), Splunk, Energy Sciences Network (EsNet), and RokMetro.
• Manages 4 full time Cybersecurity developers (fully remote team) and student interns.
• Mentors key team leads on their path to becoming managers or architects.
• Led creation of shared resources for preventing secret disclosure, Cybersecurity code review, and automated regression testing.
• Co-chair of the Next Generation Infrastructure Strategic Automation Working Group 2020-2022.
• Mentored the development teams behind the highest volume community COVID testing response in the United States in 2020.
• Member of the GitHub Enterprise Commitee, and founding member of the GitHub Enterprise Community Interest Group. Maintainer of the GitHub Enterprise Campus Community Portal.
• Member of the Technology Services Architecture Virtual Team.
• Supports overall Identity, Privacy and Cybersecurity Objectives.

• Managed remote DevOps team of 9 software developers and 2 automation engineers for Busey Bank and FirsTech Payment processor.
• Led development secure and PCI compliant FinTech software using C#, jQuery, Git, NuGet, PowerShell, and Azure DevOps.
• Piloted the FirsTech contract solutions line of business - adding half a million new revenue.
• Led successful custom software implementations that added another $1 million new revenue in 2018.
• Mentored developers, security engineers, networking professionals and DevOps team members in how to remediate vulnerabilities.
• Implemented development team self scanning with Accunetix.
• Led implementation of Continuous Integration (CI/CD) pipelines on AzureDevOps to improve delivery speed, reliability, security and agility.
• Led implementation of PowerShell Desired State Config to secure new web servers with less effort and greater reliability.
• Led the development team to successfully implement ongoing 100% code review.
• Onboarded the FirsTech and Busey infrastructure, networking and database teams to adopt source control and code review in support of infrastructure-as-code implementations.
• Led requirements gathering and analysis to make build, buy, or open source adoption decisions, leading to roughly 1/4 million in annual savings.

• Managed 3 full time software developer direct reports.
• Collaborated with security, infrastructure, operations and sales teams to improve custom software product offerings.
• Provided data analysis support as the organization grew from $3.7 billion in 2015 managed assets to $7.9 billion in 2017.

• Guides projects through the software development life-cycle, including requirements, implementation, delivery, testing and maintenance.
• Built financial transaction websites using Microsoft C Sharp (C#), ASP.Net, Model View Controller (MVC), Razor Partials and React.js.
• Recognized as a key contributor in the integration of Pulaski Bank infrastructure.
• Presents technology training at local conferences as part of the First Busey commitment to building our community.

Lead Software Developer Responsibilities

• Researched, tested, prototyped, documented, and presented technology stack improvements for the Software Architecture Management Office.
• Worked with the identity management team to analyze improvements to our provisioning, authentication and authorization solution architectures.
• Proactively communicates with the Linux systems team to ensure support for core solution technologies.
• Trained team members in Linux, version control, Light-weight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), web application frameworks, and deployment technologies.
• Author of the CITES Software Engineering Risk Knowledge Base (2012).
• Retired a tightly integrated, but out of date, authentication system.
• Produced integrations to maintain a consistent identity record across three campuses.

Interim Manager Responsibilities

• Managed 5 full time software developers.
• Regularly met one one one with developers to provide feedback and guidance.
• Proactively communicated context for upcoming organizational changes.

Senior Software Developer Responsibilities

• Developed applications for the Office of Privacy and Information Assurance.
• Mentored junior team members within the Software Development Group and the Office of Privacy and Information Assurance.
• Fluent in several development languages, including Python, C#, Perl, Java and PHP.
• Ensured applications comply with W3C and FAE accessibility guidelines.
• Applied extensive knowledge of the application stack to solve issues - including Active Directory, Apache, Django, JSON, LDAP, Linux shell, Syslog, SQL, and WSGI.

Application Security Engineer Responsibilities

• Authored the Software Development Group Standard Security Practices (2011).
• Wrote and presented security training for campus IT professionals (2010-2013).
• Established the Office of Privacy and Information Assurance Web Application Vulnerability Scanning Service (2011).
• Provided recommendations to campus stakeholders based on vulnerability scan results (2011 - 2013).
• Served as a subject matter expert for Software Development Group authentication and authorization practices and technologies.

• Developed applications for the Office of Privacy and Information Assurance.
• Author of a series of Secure Software Development articles for campus IT professionals (2008 - 2013). A few articles are posted publicly to https://security.illinois.edu/blog.
• Tested modules with unittest in Python, NUnit for .Net, and JUnit for Java.
• Prototyped the team’s first Django framework application. https://security.illinois.edu/content/register-your-computer
• Reviewed the source code of high risk applications for the Office of Privacy and Information Assurance (2009 - 2014).
• Crafted a password generation module for use in University Admissions, to provide a campus wide compliance solution to a time-sensitive audit result (2010).

• Wrote software to track performance of supercomputers at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).

• Solved diverse software and hardware configuration challenges.

• Created an elegant extensible project template which allowed us to create applications more quickly with better standard features.
• Used VB.Net, ASP.Net, ADO.Net, MS SQL Server, XML, and JavaScript to build advanced web interfaces.

Interesting coursework:

• Wrote a binary program capable of detecting a specific manufacturing fault in a computer chip.
• Wrote a research paper on the economics of the funding of the Mozilla Foundation.
• Wrote several statistical gene analysis programs in Perl.
• Designed and simulated a pipelined computer processor for MIPS assembler.
• Classwork languages included: Java, Perl, C, C++, Visual Basic, ColdFusion, Mainframe RPG, MIPS Assembler.

• GitHub Arctic Code Vault Contributor - for commits to facebook/react-native, angular/angular.js, kivy/kivy and more.
• PowerShell Desired State Config (DSC) Module for Center for Information Security (CIS) Benchmarks
• Splunk SOAR integrations for higher education use cases.
• McAirpos for playing MakeCode Aracde creations on RecalBox to inspire more kids to learn to code.
• Various simple command line utilities.
• And more...

• 'Kurbenetes Security' course on A Cloud Guru - May 2022
• SANS SEC 510: Public Cloud Security: AWS, Azure, and GCP, May 2021
• CampIT Enterprise Risk / Security Management, March 2021
• So many online conferences in 2020: AnsibleFest, PrivacyCon, DockerCon, MS Build, Microsoft Azure Fundamentals Workshop, Ansible Tower Workshop
• CampIT Risk Conference, February 2020
• ISACA Securing Web Applications, Insider Threats, Introduction to the MITRE ATT&CK Framework, January 2020
• Microsoft Azure Workshop: n-Tier Server Provisioning and Deployment Pipelines with Docker, 2019
• Completed Evolve: Two year internal leadership training program at Busey 2018, 2019
• Managing People to Perform - Oliver Group Inc, 2018
• Citigal OWASP Top Ten Training in 2017, 2018, 2019
• Defensive Programming for C# - Citigal 2017
• DevUp St Louis 2017, PowerShell Summit 2017
• U of I Information Technology Manager Development (MgrDev) class of 2014
• DjangoCon US 2012 and 2013
• U of I Information Technology Leadership Workshop (ITLW) class of 2011
• SANS SEC546: IPv6 Essentials - 2011
• SANS On-site Secure Software Development Training

• Website Committee Chair - Rotary Club of Champaign, 2020 - 2022
• Webmaster - Rotary Club of Champaign, 2018-2022
• Hosts a free "Learn Programming!" class for elementary students at local public libraries since 2017
• OWASP Top Ten Privacy Project - Core contributor since 2015
• Handled hosting, DNS and administration of various not-for-profit websites since 2007
• Recurring presenter at Urbana IT Professionals Forum, University of Illinois Webmasters Conference, Chicago Camp IT Conferences