Bradley Freeman

Senior Cybersecurity Engineer & Systems Architect
Cincinnati Area, OH

Senior Cybersecurity Engineer with 20+ years of hands-on experience spanning enterprise vulnerability management (TP/FP verification), malware analysis & payload dissection, offensive security operations, and 3M+ EPS log ingestion infrastructure.

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20+
Years Experience
3M+
EPS Log Pipelines
99.999%
Platform Uptime
Offensive & IR
Core Specialization

Core Technical Competencies

Vulnerability & Offensive Security

Vulnerability Assessments TP / FP Verification Offensive Security Management Attack Surface Hardening Wireshark Analysis

Threat Analysis & Malware

Malware Dissection Payload Behavior Analysis Hidden Action Discovery Protocol Reverse Engineering IOC Extraction

SIEM, Ingestion & Automation

Splunk 3M+ EPS Pipelines Kafka Swimlane Turbine (SOAR) IR Playbook Engineering

Infrastructure & Engineering

Python REST APIs Ansible IPTables Linux Hardening VMware / Xen

Professional Experience

Technical AI Trainer & Security Evaluator
Specialist
2024 – Present
  • Evaluate and benchmark advanced LLMs and autonomous agents on cybersecurity engineering, exploit triage, vulnerability discovery, and script automation workflows.
Swimlane Turbine Certified SOAR Developer
DeepSeas
Jan 2024 – July 2025
  • Architected automated security orchestration workflows using Swimlane Turbine, significantly cutting manual response times across enterprise environments.
  • Developed modular Python integrations to automate alert enrichment, IOC validation, and cross-tool containment actions.
SOAR Engineer
AHEAD
June 2022 – Oct 2023
  • Engineered custom SOAR playbooks and REST API connectors linking SIEM detection alerts to automated remediation pipelines for enterprise environments.
  • Collaborated with enterprise IT and networking teams to audit firewall configurations and implement automated vulnerability mitigations.
Senior Infrastructure & Security Applications Engineer (Lead)
Nuspire Networks
March 2009 – Sep 2021
  • Vulnerability Assessments: Conducted enterprise vulnerability assessments, performing manual deep-dive verification to classify True Positives vs. False Positives and author remediation roadmaps.
  • Malware Dissection: Dissected suspicious binaries and obfuscated payloads using packet capture (Wireshark) and behavioral analysis to uncover hidden malicious actions and extract actionable IOCs.
  • Offensive Security: Managed corporate offensive security operations and internal attack surface testing to proactively identify and close exploitable vectors.
  • High-Scale Log Ingestion: Scaled distributed data pipelines handling over 3,000,000 events/sec with a 99.999% uptime record, reverse-engineering proprietary network protocols for standardized SIEM ingestion.

Certifications

Swimlane Turbine Certified Developer CompTIA Security+ CompTIA Network+ CompTIA Linux+ CompTIA A+