RESUME

Information security and SOC.
Anton Solomatin

Anton Solomatin

Information security specialist with a system administration background. 5 years at a hosting company: I went from first-line support to security specialist and built the company's security program from scratch — from an Active Directory domain hardened by CIS Benchmark to an in-house SOC on Wazuh.

I've been into security since school. I know infrastructure from the inside, so I understand both how attacks work and how to defend against them. In my spare time I do bug bounty, solve CTFs and build my own security tools. I love Linux, free software, hard problems and automating everything that can be automated.

PositionSecurity Specialist
Age32 years
LocationKaraganda, Kazakhstan
+7 (775) 945-36-32

From support desk to security

February 2024 — present · 2 yr 9 mo

Information Security Specialist

Hosting provider, Karaganda

Built the company's information security from scratch: from the office network to an in-house SOC.

  • Built the corporate Active Directory domain: 2 domain controllers, ~100 users and workstations.
  • Hardened workstations to CIS Benchmark Level 1: BitLocker, AppLocker, LAPS, LSA Protection, USB blocking — CIS compliance went from 22% to 74%.
  • Automated software deployment and configuration for every department — about 150 group policies.
  • Rolled out centrally managed Kaspersky endpoint protection.
  • Deployed a fault-tolerant, load-balanced Wazuh SIEM cluster — 300+ agents.
  • Built Qalqan — an internal vulnerability triage and SOC workflow panel that replaced DefectDojo, which proved too heavy for our scale.
  • Investigate incidents — compromised websites and servers, email account takeovers, phishing — and run security audits.
February 2023 — January 2024

System Administrator (L2)

Hosting provider
  • Ran hosting, virtualization, servers and the company's core services.
  • Monitoring (Zabbix, Nagios), handling load spikes and DDoS attacks.
  • Automation with Bash, Python, Ansible and Puppet; trained colleagues on Ansible.
  • Added Python (Django/Flask) and Node.js support to the hosting platform; built a mailbox migration service.
  • Managed infrastructure for major clients in Kazakhstan.
December 2021 — January 2023

System Administrator (L1)

Hosting provider
  • Customer technical support: calls, chats, tickets.
  • Configured web servers, databases, AD and custom setups; migrations of any complexity.
  • For about two years resolved every ticket without escalating to higher support lines.
2011 — 2013

Lingva Technical College

College · Computer Engineering and Software

Computer engineering and software, specialization: systems engineer.

Projects

Qyran
personal project · closed source

Qyran — offensive security platform

Self-hosted platform for security audits and bug bounty: perimeter recon, an intercepting proxy, scanning and vulnerability tracking, reports and continuous monitoring. An AI assistant built on 120+ in-house testing playbooks.

PythonFastAPIReactMongoDBDockernucleiAI agents
Qalqan
Internal project

Qalqan — vulnerability triage panel for SOC

Collects software inventory and vulnerabilities from servers, enriches them with CVSS, EPSS, CISA KEV and exploit data, and filters out false positives caused by vendor backports. Work orders, reports and a read-only AI assistant.

FastAPIReactMongoDBosqueryMCPSOC
Demo on request
wazuh-to-dojo
open source

wazuh-to-dojo

Exports vulnerabilities from Wazuh (Elasticsearch/OpenSearch) to DefectDojo via the Generic Findings Import API. Supports rescans and cron runs.

PythonWazuhDefectDojo
GitHub →
ReconWTF
open source

ReconWTF

Installs and runs a curated toolset to map the attack surface of websites, portals and organizations.

BashReconBug BountyGo
GitHub →
BugBounty-Hub
open source

BugBounty-Hub

A collection of Nuclei templates and wordlists for bug bounty and security testing. Used in reconWTF.

NucleiWordlistsRecon
GitHub →
ASpider
open source

ASpider

Reverse domain lookup by A records for AS/ASN/CIDR/IP lists: finds domains and servers tied to an autonomous system or range.

PythonASNRecon
GitHub →
ScriptHub
open source

ScriptHub

Handy server scripts: copy, paste into the terminal — task automated.

BashPythonHTML
GitHub →
DHVAdmin
open source

DHVAdmin

An assistant for hosting sysadmins and support staff to quickly assess a domain, its DNS and web server.

BashDNSWHOIS
GitHub →
solo10010.github.io
open source

solo10010.github.io

This website: resume, portfolio and blog built with Hugo and deployed automatically via GitHub Actions.

HugoBootstrap 5GitHub Pages
GitHub →

Stack and tools

Defense and SOC

SIEMWazuhSuricataSOCIncident responseVulnerability managementDefectDojoOpenCVEKaspersky Endpoint SecurityCrowdSecBitNinjaImunify360CSF / iptablesDDoS protection

Windows and Active Directory

Active DirectoryGPOCIS BenchmarkAppLockerBitLockerLAPS

Offensive

Bug BountyPentestReconOSINTNucleiCTF

Infrastructure

LinuxNginxApacheHAProxyMail serversDNSMySQL / PerconaKVMProxmoxVirtualizorPleskISPmanagerZabbixNagiosTraefikFortiGate

Automation and development

BashPythonFastAPIReactMongoDBAnsiblePuppetDocker / ComposePortainerGitAI agents / MCP

From practice

Building a SOC on Wazuh

A fault-tolerant SIEM cluster for 300+ agents, HAProxy load balancing, agent groups, securing the SOC itself and lessons from running it.

Read the case →

Active Directory by CIS Benchmark

Building a domain from scratch and hardening workstations: CIS Level 1 group policies, LAPS, AppLocker, BitLocker and regular audits.

Read the case →

Investigating an email compromise

A week of hidden access to corporate mailboxes, silent forwarding via Sieve and groundwork for BEC fraud: a log-based timeline and lessons learned.

Read the case →

SIEM noise

Millions of alerts a day, three rules producing 90% of them. How to turn a firehose into an incident queue.

Read the case →

Server optimization

A site crashed every time an editor saved a post. Tracing nginx → Apache → MySQL, table locks, and queries cut from 82 seconds to 13 ms.

Read the case →

How I can help

Security audits of servers and websites
Incident investigation and post-breach recovery
SIEM / SOC rollout (Wazuh, Elastic Security)
Linux, Windows and Active Directory hardening by CIS
Linux server administration
Web server and database tuning
DDoS and bot protection
Automation: Ansible, Bash, Python
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