# Matt Standley

> Senior Software Engineer at Cisco Systems

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/mattstandley

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Security @ Cisco
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer @ Arkose Labs
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
Development (Golang, Bash, EKS, Helm, Terraform, Javascript)
- Designed, development and deployed Golang micrsoservices on AWS EKS using
helm charts and managed AWS resources using Terraform
- Services I have worked on include Ip Intelligence, Device Intelligence, Email
Intelligence, Cookie processing and Fingerprint processing for our Detection needs
- Developed router microservice that will read in user data pulled from client side
Javascript and make parallel calls to all our detection services for latency
improvements
- Created Encryption SDK for all of our services that manages user PII data using
AWS secrets manager and AWS KMS to protect user data and meet
compliance

### Software Engineer - Network Security @ Cisco
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Jose, California
Development (C, C++, GoLang)
- FTD object group interface and access-list code 
- Snort3: SSL/TLS Session Resumption, Certificate Pinning. OpenSSL
- TLS 1.3 signature algorithm support, application security parameter generation

Automation (Python, Kick, Jenkins)
- Built the automation for a major FTD feature. 
- Testbed deployment and testcase automation using REST-API, Kick and Jenkins

Feature Testing
- Run manual testcases for FTD and SSL/TLS features

Lab Admin 
- Firewall, Switches, Routers, Terminal Servers Cisco UCS Blade servers
- VMware ESX, VMware vCenter

Side Project:
Containerizing an automation script to upgrade ASA, FTD and FXOS

### Software Engineer Intern - Network Security @ Cisco
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Jose, California
Worked on CI/CD cluster, HA and standalone production pipelines to test new ASA builds. Wrote scripts and designed topology files to deploy clustered and standalone logical devices, OS image pairing, OS image upgrader, create pipeline reports, cron job to send out reports. Implemented standalone integration pipeline to update scripts in production pipeline.
Implemented automation script to upgrade ASA (Adaptive Security Appliance) and FXOS (Firepower eXtensible Operating System) on 3 Next-Generation Firewall models (FPR2100, FPR4100, FPR9000).

### Research Student - Biometric Authentication @ University of San Diego
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater San Diego Area
I am researching different types of deep learning methodologies and human characteristics to develop an accurate two-factor form of biometric authentication. Responsible for building neural networks with various layers of authentication taking into account unique human characteristics.

### Data Science Intern @ StratumPoint, Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater San Diego Area
Skilled in NLP techniques, text mining and feature extraction, data mining principles, artificial neural network modelling and development, and generally: embedding cerebral concepts into custom built software.


## Education
### Computer Science
University of San Diego


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/matt-standley-52893a126

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Last updated: 2026-03-29