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Aleksander Nowak

Senior Security Engineer

a.nowak@example.com | +48 512 000 142 | Warsaw, Poland | linkedin.com/in/example-profile | example.com/security

Summary

Six years of security operations and penetration testing in enterprise environments. I have worked across incident response, threat hunting and secure software lifecycle. I follow a finding through to remediation rather than leaving it in a report.

Work Experience

Senior Security Engineer

January 2022 – Present

Enterprise software company · Warsaw

  • Rewrote the SIEM rule set; false positives fell from 71% to 18% and true incident detection rose 2.3×.
  • Established a monthly threat hunting cycle mapped to MITRE ATT&CK; three persistence attempts found in the first year.
  • Ran threat modelling on 14 critical applications, closing 63 high-risk findings before release.

Penetration Tester

June 2019 – December 2021

Security consultancy · Kraków

  • Carried out web and network penetration tests for 31 organisations and reported 12 critical findings.
  • Built an automated asset discovery tool that cut test preparation from three days to four hours.
  • Delivered secure coding training to client development teams, reaching 180 participants.

Security Operations Analyst

February 2018 – May 2019

Telecoms operator · Kraków

  • Triaged an average of 400 alerts a day on a 24/7 SOC rota.
  • Built an automated quarantine flow for phishing campaigns; click-through fell from 9% to 2%.
  • Institutionalised incident response exercises; mean time to detect fell from 41 minutes to 9.

Education

Warsaw University of Technology

October 2016 – January 2018

MSc, Information Security · 4.5/5

Jagiellonian University

October 2012 – June 2016

BSc, Computer Science · 4.2/5

Skills

Penetration testing · Incident response · Threat hunting · Digital forensics · Splunk · Burp Suite · Metasploit · Wireshark · Crisis communication · Risk explanation · Training delivery

Projects

Zero Trust Network Migration

Moved a 1,900-user environment to an identity-based access model. The lateral movement surface narrowed measurably and the VPN dependency was removed entirely.

Secure Software Pipeline

Integrated static analysis, dependency scanning and secret detection into CI so that findings reach developers rather than a quarterly report.

Certifications

  • Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)Offensive Security · 2023-03

Languages

  • Polish · Native
  • English · Advanced
  • German · Intermediate
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