Jeff's Cover Letter

EXPERIENCE

Synergetic Holdings, LLC - Principal Consultant

Providing greenfield and legacy development as a service for client web apps and cloud infrastructure informed by security requirements, threat modeling, and secure code review.
Conducting technical due diligence to evaluate security compliance readiness, guide clients through compliance efforts, and deliver technical assessments to inform funding decisions.
Driving enterprise customer acquisition by architecting and implementing Governance Risk Compliance programs and authentication infrastructure that eliminate technical barriers in enterprise sales.

Notable Clients

AuditMiner - Employee Benefit Plan Audit Platform

Technologies: Vue JS & Django Rest Framework

Created an MVP that achieved traction in 3 months.
Introduced an Agile project management workflow increasing efficiency by 20 percent.
Hired and nurtured engineering talent quadrupling the size of the engineering team.
Authored a custom ETL pipeline to process 401(k) and payroll data from over 20 sources saving auditors approximately 30 hours per project.
Established a CI/CD pipeline increasing the velocity of delivery by 2x.
Developed a full stack web framework achieving over $1 Million ARR the first year.
Implemented technical security controls and a SOC II compliance program allowing sales to pursue large, corporate clients and increasing the company's value by 6x.

LinearA Data - Hospital Capacity Planning Application

Technologies: React JS & Golang

Improved UX with React.js resulting in a 50% increase in customer adoption.
Created data collection and matching techniques saving approximately 30 minutes of manual effort per data source.
Audited security controls for HIPAA compliance.

Raven Security Associates, INC - Physical Security Services

Technologies: Python, GeoPandas, Typescript, & React JS

Aggregated, cleaned, geotagged, and geofenced Omaha, NE police incident report data; augmenting corporate threat intelligence and optimizing security staffing.
Updated camera systems; laying the foundation for municipal city camera integration.
Designed a scheduling, billing, and communication system; fostering rapid client communication and cutting administrative overhead in half.

Security Research

Responsible Vulnerability Disclosures

CVE-2021-42053
- 1 library 6 packages and 249 repositories impacted
CVE-2021-42134
- 1 library 6 packages and 249 repositories impacted

Publications

W. Mahoney, P. Sigillito, J. Smolinski, T. McDonald, and G. Grispos, "Analyzing the Performance of Block-Splitting in LLVM Fingerprinting," International Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security, vol. 17, no. 1. Academic Conferences International Ltd, pp. 176–184, Mar. 02, 2022. doi: 10.34190/iccws.17.1.39.

Competitions

Embedded Capture the Flag MITRE 2020
Designing a secure audio digital rights management (DRM) module for a next-generation multimedia player on the Digilent Cora Z7.

EDUCATION

University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE - MS Cybersecurity (Cyber Operations) GPA 4.0
Adams State University, Golden, Co - BA General Studies GPA 4.0

AWARDS

Certificate of Recognition, Omaha Chamber of Commerce (2017)

For teaching 20 small business owners WordPress development.

Jeff Smolinski

Fullstack Engineer

Security Engineer