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 – PresentEnterprise 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.
Penetration Tester
June 2019 – December 2021Security 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.
Security Operations Analyst
February 2018 – May 2019Telecoms 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%.
Education
Warsaw University of Technology
MSc, Information Security · 4.5/5
Jagiellonian University
BSc, Computer Science · 4.2/5
Skills
Penetration testing · Incident response · Threat hunting · Splunk · Burp Suite · Metasploit · 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.
Languages
- Polish · Native
- English · Advanced
- German · Intermediate