Merlin Blom#

work#

• Managing Cyber Defense Consultant at SECUINFRA GmbH since 2020

history#

• 2018-2020: Project management and Cloud Engineer at Arvato Systems GmbH
• 2018-2020: Master Sc. Business Informatics at Leipzig University
• 2014-2017: Windows & Linux Server Administation + Cloud at Arvato Systems GmbH
• 2015-2018: Bachelor Sc. Business Informatics at FHDW Paderborn

skills#

• SIEM: QRadar, Splunk, Elastic
• Team & Project Management
• Blue Team
• Detection Engineering
• Linux Server Admin
• Private/Public Cloud: OpenStack, GCP

languages#

• German
• English
• Python
• BASH
• SPL

social Bla#

• Twitter: @merlinmagican
• Mastodon: @merlin@ruhr.social

hobbies#

• making music with git, keys and voice
• Local LLMs & Vibe Coding