Seth Beckman

@parsec
Atlanta, GA, US
He/Him/They

ADHD

Rabbit Hole Explorer

Cyber Security

Kubernetes

DevOps

Operations

Open Source

Coding

Hobby

Mechanical Keyboard Enthusiast

Student

Hi there! I’m an ADHDer working in the Information Security field. I have interests in all things tech, D&D, video games, music, wood working, cooking… you name it, I’ve probably hyperfocused on it!

I'm open to

open source contributions,

giving resume feedback,

beta testing new products,

volunteering,

mentoring,

writing,

making introductions,

brainstorming,

speaking on podcasts,

partnering on side projects,

freelance roles,

and full time roles.

Contact Me

Resume

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Apr 2022 - Present

Software Engineer - DevOps, State Farm

Apr 2021 - Apr 2022

Information Security Administrator, BPM

Dec 2020 - Apr 2021

User Engagement Analyst, BPM

Nov 2019 - Dec 2020

Technical Support Analyst, Kennesaw State University UITS

Portfolio

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Started studying for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator cert! Taking Kubernetes Fundamentals by The Linux Foundation. Super excited!!!

Started learning Kubernetes with Rancher k3s and FluxCD for GitOps

Learned Java and finished university programming coursework \o/

Started learning Java and fundamental programming concepts

Side projects

Started working on our microservices-based cross-platform (IRC+Discord) bot! https://github.com/bytebot-chat

Awards

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As network/firewall admin on the Kennesaw State University team, we earned 2nd place at the South East Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (SECCDC) (https://cyberinstitute.kennesaw.edu/se...

My team placed in the top 15 in Network Design at the Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) National Leadership Conference in Anaheim, CA

My team won 3rd place in Network Design at the Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) Georgia State Leadership Conference.

My team won 2nd place in Network Design at the Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) National Leadership Conference in Baltimore, MD

Things I’ve built

Implemented Smartcard/certificate based authentication in on-premises Active Directory.

I configured the Azure/SAML SSO integration for our onboarding of KnowBe4, automated user and group provisioning via SCIM agent, and began configuration of PhishER and more advanced KnowBe4 features.

Developed and implemented Software Onboarding and Security Review process for BPM

Articles and blogs

Wrote a blog post on deploying the ELK ECK Kubernetes Operator on k3s with fluxCD for GitOps :) https://blog.gitgud.sh/posts/2021/05/deploying-the-elk-eck-operator-with-fluxcd/

Wowza! My new blog is up! I'll have a post soon about how I ended up deciding to do it (as is the custom), but for now you can enjoy my post about deploying the ECK operator on k3s with fluxCD :) h...