Ryan Patel
ryan.patel@email.com · +1 (703) 555-0140 · Arlington, VA · https://linkedin.com/in/ryanpatel · https://github.com/ryanpatel
Professional summary
Cybersecurity analyst with 5 years in a SOC environment. Experienced in Splunk, incident triage, and vulnerability remediation with a track record of cutting mean time to detect and containing threats before lateral movement.
Skills
Security: SIEM · Incident response · Threat hunting · Vulnerability management
Tools: Splunk · CrowdStrike · Nessus · Wireshark · Python
Professional experience
Cybersecurity Analyst II
Clearpath Defense — Arlington, VA
May 2021 – Present
- Reduced mean time to detect phishing campaigns from 4.2 hours to 55 minutes via new Splunk rules.
- Led containment for 35 priority incidents in 2025 with zero confirmed data exfiltration.
- Closed 180 critical Nessus findings in 90 days by partnering with IT on patch SLAs.
Security Operations Analyst
NovaTech Solutions — Reston, VA
Jul 2019 – Apr 2021
- Triaged 50+ daily alerts, escalating true positives with full packet captures and timelines.
- Authored 20 runbooks that cut handoff errors during after-hours incidents by half.
Education
George Mason University
B.S., Cybersecurity Engineering
2015 – 2019
Certifications
- Security+ — CompTIA — 2020
- CySA+ — CompTIA — 2022