Brewing and Aging an Imperial Stout.

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Lessons learned from brewing an Imperial Stout

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Sam Christian

Backend engineer with 14 years of security problems and a habit of solving them at scale. Currently deep in agentic AI — turning analyst workflows into production cloud deployments.

Languages: Python, Golang

Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Serverless

Frameworks & Tools: Flask, FastAPI, Elasticsearch, GitLab, CI/CD

Practices: Test-Driven Development, REST APIs, Microservices

Emerging: Agentic AI, Claude Code, Cursor

Salesforce | Lead Threat Intelligence Software Engineer | March 2022 - Present

Led development of the intelligence ecosystem, providing the security organization access to third-party and internal intel services.
Provided multiple avenues of access across a variety of use cases: Slack bot, CLI tools, Python libraries, SOAR integrations, and agentic skills.
Leveraged AI to deliver contextual analysis of cumulative and disparate intelligence data, giving analysts initial assessments.
Scaled application usage from hundreds to tens of millions of invocations per month.
Drove Vertex Synapse adoption: built framework for developing, testing, and deploying in-house Power-Ups; re-architected for mirrored instances using Terraform and Ansible per vendor guidance.
Collaborated across teams to deliver features spanning SOAR, TIP, Case Management, and response platforms.
Guided analysts and engineers in agentic workflows, emphasizing maintainability and early architectural thinking — taking projects from ad hoc scripts to scaled production cloud deployments.
Mentored new-grad and mid-level engineers and analysts, fostering an inclusive environment for personal and professional growth.
Led weekly pair programming sessions, annual hackathons, and cross-team status meetings.
Brought test coverage from 0% to 85% across dozens of repositories.

Datadog | Threat Detection | October 2020 - March 2022

Mentored junior team members and interns in coding standards, system design, clean coding practices, and test frameworks.
Reduced average detection code size by 40%.
Led effort for continuous security testing via automated attack simulation.
Overhauled custom alerting platform, adding deduplication, centralized response management, and full traceability and metrics.
Contributed to hiring across multiple teams, interviewing or evaluating take-home projects for 20+ candidates.
Maintained and improved legacy infrastructure and applications through security updates, deployments, bug fixes, and features.

Secureworks | Counter Threat Unit | July 2015 - October 2020

Senior Information Research Advisor