Tara \X/ Void
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BasedOmaha, NE / Hayward, CA (remote-friendly)
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Platform / DevEx / DevSecOps engineer with 15 years across security engineering, threat intelligence, and production operations at MITRE, Salesforce, Datadog, and Yahoo, plus a Director-level security role at Tile. Since 2026 I've run RavenFlight Industries, where I design, ship, and operate the whole stack solo.

Core skills

  • Platform & Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Flux GitOps, Docker/OCI, Terraform / OpenTofu, Ansible, Tailscale
  • Cloud: Cloudflare (Workers, Workflows, D1, R2, KV, Durable Objects), AWS, Azure, GCP, Netlify
  • CI/CD & DevEx: GitHub Actions (reusable workflows, self-hosted runners), release-please, git-cliff, Conventional Commits
  • DevSecOps & Supply Chain: gitleaks, SOPS + age, Grype, zizmor, actionlint, CodeQL / Semgrep / Snyk
  • Languages: TypeScript / JavaScript (Bun, Node), Python (uv, ruff, pytest), Bash, HCL, SQL, Go
  • Frameworks & Data: Hono, Astro, React, Tailwind, Drizzle ORM, Zod, Postgres, SQLite / D1

Experience

RavenFlight Industries, LLCApr 2026 - present
Founder & Principal Engineer (Platform, DevEx, Security), Omaha, NE
  • Bun/TypeScript monorepo (Hono API, Astro admin dashboard, Zod schemas, Drizzle + D1) running entirely on Cloudflare Workers, Workflows, D1, R2, KV and Durable Objects.
  • Astro + React islands + Tailwind v4 marketing site with live audits, KV-backed rate limiting, and a rehearsed rollback/roll-forward drill on every staging deploy.
  • Five reusable GitHub Actions workflows and three composite actions consumed by four production sites, hardened with actionlint, zizmor, and ShellCheck.
  • Scale-to-zero self-hosted GitHub Actions runner pool with zero public ingress, SOPS + age secrets, and single-use OAuth join tokens.
Lindsay CorporationJan 2025 - Apr 2026
Senior DevOps Engineer, Omaha, NE
  • Owned business-critical hosting and CI/CD on Azure and GitLab, with developer productivity as the explicit success metric.
  • Introduced agentic development workflows (GitHub Copilot, Claude) to the engineering team.
Datadog, IncJan 2022 - May 2024
Senior Security Engineer (Product Security), San Francisco Bay Area
  • Product security for services carrying billions in revenue; secured Go, Python, Kafka, Redis, NoSQL, and Postgres code paths.
  • Implemented DevSecOps controls: code security, secrets scanning, and security review programs across product, database, infrastructure, and engineering teams.
Salesforce, IncFeb 2019 - Jan 2022
Senior Security Engineer (Threat Intelligence), San Francisco Bay Area
  • Built and owned DevOps for a production threat-intelligence platform on AWS: Python, Redis, DynamoDB, Kafka, Celery / RabbitMQ, Lambda.
Tile, IncOct 2016 - Jan 2018
Director of Security, San Francisco Bay Area
  • Owned product security for millions of users across mobile, cloud, and embedded hardware.
  • Ran threat intelligence, threat modeling, pentesting, and bug-bounty programs.
MITRE CorporationMar 2014 - Jan 2016
Senior Security Engineer (Threat Intelligence, Counter-Espionage), McLean, VA
  • Published security research in IEEE and Springer; developed sensitive and classified research.
  • Wrote mitigations and threat modeling for MITRE ATT&CK; helped design and implement the STIX threat-intelligence sharing format.

Education

University of Nebraska at Omaha - B.S. Computer Science, Minor in Psychology, magna cum laude