# Tara \X/ Void

Omaha, NE / Hayward, CA (remote-friendly)

## Summary

Platform / DevEx / DevSecOps engineer with 15 years across security engineering, threat intelligence, and production operations at MITRE, Salesforce, Datadog, and Yahoo, plus a Director-level security role at Tile. Since 2026 I've run RavenFlight Industries, where I design, ship, and operate the whole stack solo.

## Core Skills

- Platform & Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Flux GitOps, Docker/OCI, Terraform / OpenTofu, Ansible, Tailscale
- Cloud: Cloudflare (Workers, Workflows, D1, R2, KV, Durable Objects), AWS, Azure, GCP, Netlify
- CI/CD & DevEx: GitHub Actions (reusable workflows, self-hosted runners), release-please, git-cliff, Conventional Commits
- DevSecOps & Supply Chain: gitleaks, SOPS + age, Grype, zizmor, actionlint, CodeQL / Semgrep / Snyk
- Languages: TypeScript / JavaScript (Bun, Node), Python (uv, ruff, pytest), Bash, HCL, SQL, Go
- Frameworks & Data: Hono, Astro, React, Tailwind, Drizzle ORM, Zod, Postgres, SQLite / D1

## Experience

### RavenFlight Industries, LLC

Apr 2026 - present, Omaha, NE
Founder & Principal Engineer (Platform, DevEx, Security)

- Bun/TypeScript monorepo (Hono API, Astro admin dashboard, Zod schemas, Drizzle + D1) running entirely on Cloudflare Workers, Workflows, D1, R2, KV and Durable Objects.
- Astro + React islands + Tailwind v4 marketing site with live audits, KV-backed rate limiting, and a rehearsed rollback/roll-forward drill on every staging deploy.
- Five reusable GitHub Actions workflows and three composite actions consumed by four production sites, hardened with actionlint, zizmor, and ShellCheck.
- Scale-to-zero self-hosted GitHub Actions runner pool with zero public ingress, SOPS + age secrets, and single-use OAuth join tokens.

### Lindsay Corporation

Jan 2025 - Apr 2026, Omaha, NE
Senior DevOps Engineer

- Owned business-critical hosting and CI/CD on Azure and GitLab, with developer productivity as the explicit success metric.
- Introduced agentic development workflows (GitHub Copilot, Claude) to the engineering team.

### Datadog, Inc

Jan 2022 - May 2024, San Francisco Bay Area
Senior Security Engineer (Product Security)

- Product security for services carrying billions in revenue; secured Go, Python, Kafka, Redis, NoSQL, and Postgres code paths.
- Implemented DevSecOps controls: code security, secrets scanning, and security review programs across product, database, infrastructure, and engineering teams.

### Salesforce, Inc

Feb 2019 - Jan 2022, San Francisco Bay Area
Senior Security Engineer (Threat Intelligence)

- Built and owned DevOps for a production threat-intelligence platform on AWS: Python, Redis, DynamoDB, Kafka, Celery / RabbitMQ, Lambda.

### Tile, Inc

Oct 2016 - Jan 2018, San Francisco Bay Area
Director of Security

- Owned product security for millions of users across mobile, cloud, and embedded hardware.
- Ran threat intelligence, threat modeling, pentesting, and bug-bounty programs.

### MITRE Corporation

Mar 2014 - Jan 2016, McLean, VA
Senior Security Engineer (Threat Intelligence, Counter-Espionage)

- Published security research in IEEE and Springer; developed sensitive and classified research.
- Wrote mitigations and threat modeling for MITRE ATT&CK; helped design and implement the STIX threat-intelligence sharing format.

## Education

University of Nebraska at Omaha - B.S. Computer Science, Minor in Psychology, magna cum laude