Noe Gonzalez
Senior Systems Engineer
Senior systems engineer: security, incident response, infrastructure automation.
Chicago, US (Central time)
Senior systems engineer at a proprietary trading firm in Chicago, fourteen years across support, Linux platform and security roles. I lead security incident response, review new protocols and venues for risk before the business touches them, and build the Linux and Ansible automation that keeps a trading environment running. Interests: MPC and private-key security, detection engineering, infrastructure as code, running AI models locally.
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Experience
Chicago proprietary trading firm
Chicago, with postings in London and Singapore, 2012-04 to present
First job out of college. Fourteen years across support, data-center, Linux and security roles.
- Senior Systems Engineer, security, 2021-09 to present, Chicago incident response, protocol and venue risk, security policy, security automation
- Security Engineer, 2019-02 to 2021-09, Chicago security team build-out, detection, hardening, incident response
- Linux Engineer, 2015-08 to 2019-02, Chicago Linux platform, automation, Ansible
- Systems Support Engineer, 2015-01 to 2015-08, Singapore data center, trading application support
- Systems Support Engineer, 2013-06 to 2015-01, London data center, trading application support
- Desktop Support Engineer, 2012-04 to 2013-06, Chicago end-user support
Expertise
- Security incident response
- Linux platform engineering
- Infrastructure automation (Ansible, Docker Compose, Proxmox)
- Detection and hardening
- Protocol and venue risk review
Interests
- MPC and threshold signatures
- Private-key security and transaction-policy design
- Local AI inference
- Homelab automation
Projects
- ansible_role_proxmox: Ansible role to provision containers in Proxmox VE. 48 stars.
- ansible_role_papermc, ansible_role_proxmox_stats, DS18B20-mqtt: Smaller Ansible roles and a sensor-to-MQTT bridge for Home Assistant.
- buildahomelab.com: Homelab write-ups, 2018 onward. Folding into this site.
- homelab-compose: Ansible-managed homelab: Proxmox, Docker Compose behind Caddy, Prometheus, Loki, Grafana, Proxmox Backup Server. Private repo.
FAQ
What do you do?
I run security incident response and infrastructure automation for a proprietary trading firm in Chicago. When something goes wrong I lead the response; the rest of the time I build the Linux and Ansible tooling that stops it going wrong.
What kind of incidents do you work?
Digital-asset incidents end to end: phishing and social engineering aimed at trading staff, impersonation and brand takedowns, and on-chain exploit response. Before that, the usual enterprise set: malware, credential exposure, access abuse.
Are you available for work?
Not looking. Happy to compare notes on incident response, trading-infrastructure security, MPC and private-key security, or homelab automation.
Contact
- Security contact: https://defcon.social/@engonzal (security.txt)