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title: "Noe Gonzalez"
last_verified: 2026-10-24
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# Noe Gonzalez

**Senior Systems Engineer**

Senior systems engineer: security, incident response, infrastructure automation.

Location: 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.

## Links

- [GitHub](https://github.com/engonzal)
- [Mastodon](https://defcon.social/@engonzal)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/engonzal/)
- [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4rfc3pzpswtww522wgdcqnam)
- [buildahomelab.com](https://buildahomelab.com)

## 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](https://github.com/engonzal/ansible_role_proxmox): Ansible role to provision containers in Proxmox VE. 48 stars.
- [ansible_role_papermc, ansible_role_proxmox_stats, DS18B20-mqtt](https://github.com/engonzal?tab=repositories): Smaller Ansible roles and a sensor-to-MQTT bridge for Home Assistant.
- [buildahomelab.com](https://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