Hey, I’m
Troy Stagg
I'm passionate about technology, business strategy, and the personal side of online security.

About Me
I'm a student, developer, analyst, and lifetime learner. I love everything
cyber security, computer science, and the business strategy behind company and product success.
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Outside of work, I'm probably:
At the gym or on a run
Building/Testing my home lab
Playing or listening to music
Trying out something new!
Hanging out with friends
Enjoying my favorite games
Traveling
Work Experience
Summer 2022-Present
Fall 2019 - Spring 2022
Summer 2021
Summer 2019
Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst/DevSecOps Engineer, Sandia National Labs
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Monitor and analyze high-volume threat intelligence feeds, including OSINT, commercial platforms, ISAC reporting, and internal telemetry, to track global threats targeting the enterprise and relevant government sectors.
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Produce timely, actionable intelligence reports on threat actors, campaigns, tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), enabling proactive defensive measures and risk mitigation. Collaborate with Incident Response and SOC teams to support investigations and containment efforts, including external incident responses.
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Deliver intelligence briefings to technical and non-technical stakeholders, including upper management and several external organizations in the CTI Center of Excellence (CoE), translating complex threat data into clear insights on adversarial threat landscapes.
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Lead effort on tracking the emergence and evolution of the usage of Adversarial AI among threat actors, leveraging internal AI tooling for aggregation and analysis.
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Develop automated tooling capabilities to increase threat intelligence efficiency and support Operational Technology (OT) security efforts, eliminating several timely manual efforts across initiatives and improving security posture.
Lead Networking Residential Technology Advisor | Wreck Techs
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Responsible for maintaining Georgia Tech’s wired and wireless network infrastructure for over 15,000 connected clients
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Resolved issues pertaining to networking equipment and personal devices for over 8,000 on-campus residents
Technology Intern (Cybersecurity Track) | New York Life Insurance
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Led weekly training sessions for employees with lectures/lab walkthroughs based on OWASP Top 10 Web Application Security Risks using the Portswigger platform and Burp Suite
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Performed weekly analyses on Web Application Firewall logs of 10,000 samples using Excel/Python and regularly reported results to managers
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Collaborated with a group of six interns to leverage Amazon Textract for automated conversion of paper forms to tickets displayed on a UI
Assistant Instructor | Black Rocket
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Taught summer camp classes on a variety of Computer Science topics, including programming and virtual/augmented reality
Other Projects
Cybersecurity Home Lab
Enterprise Network Simulation and Home Monitoring
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Designed and maintained a virtualized enterprise network home lab with multiple Windows and Linux VMs, including an Active Directory domain environment, to simulate real-world enterprise infrastructure and security scenarios.
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Deployed Wazuh for endpoint monitoring both in the lab and on home computers, developing detection rules to support sample incident scenarios.
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Performed analysis of logs to investigate sample incident scenarios, strengthen threat detection skills, and improve hands-on experience with SOC and Incident Response scenarios.
Smart Mirror (In Progress)
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Engineering and developing a custom smart mirror from scratch using open-source MagicMirror framework, integrating display hardware, embedded computing components, and custom software modules to replicate features of commercially available smart mirror products with improved privacy.
Skills
Technical: Application Security | Information Security | Computer Networking | Burp Suite | Python | Java | Java Swing | C++ | HTML/CSS | Android Studio | Windows | MacOS | Linux
Languages: English (native) | Spanish (fluent) | ASL (intermediate)
Achievements/Certifications
Department of Energy Q Clearance (Spring 2023)
CompTIA Security+ (Spring 2024)
ISC2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) (Expected Spring/Summer 2026)
Eagle Scout Award - 2018
Relevant Coursework
Computer Science
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CS2340 - Objects and Design
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CS1332 - Data Structures & Algorithms
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CS2110 - Computer Organization & Programming
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CS3510 - Design & Analysis of Algorithms
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CS3750 - User Interface Design
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CS3600 - Intro to Artificial Intelligence
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CS3630 - Intro to Perception & Robotics
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CS4731 - Game AI
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CS6262 - Network Security
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CS4635 - Knowledge-Based AI
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CS4510 - Automata & Complexity
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CS6035 - Intro to Information Security
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CS6210 - Advanced Operating Systems
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CS6390 - Programming Languages
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CS6290 - High Performance Computer Architecture
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CS6260 - Applied Cryptography
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CS6275 - Info Security Policies (in progress)
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CS6747 - Advanced Malware Analysis (in progress)
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CS6515- Intro to Grad Algorithms (in progress)
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CS6726 - Privacy Tech Policy Law (in progress)
Misc.
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MATH3012 - Applied Combinatorics
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MATH3215 - Probability & Statistics
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PSYC2015 - Research Methods
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PSYC2210 - Social Psychology
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LMC3403 - Tech Communication

