Why

To leave things better than I found them, so that those around me believe they can make a difference.

Projects / Roles

Alternate Organization Information System Security Officer (AOISSO), Computation Directorate, April 2018 - Present

• Responsible for overall security of Livermore Computing (LC) High Performance Computing (HPC) center.
• Ensure and track compliance of LC systems to LLNL, DOE, and Federal Cyber Security requirements.

Information System Security Officer (ISSO), Livermore Computing, April 2018 - Present

• Responsible for overall security of Livermore Computing (LC) High Performance Computing (HPC) center.
• Ensure and track compliance of LC systems to LLNL, DOE, and Federal Cyber Security requirements.
• Lead LC Security Task Force meeting to discuss, address, and guide cyber security direction of LC.

Cyber Assessment Coordinator, Livermore Computing, November 2016 - Present

• Responsible for defining, performing, and coordinating cyber assessment activities on all Livermore Computing (LC) production, infrastructure, and testbed systems.
• Monitor relevant security vulnerability and threat intelligence feeds from vendors, LLNL Cyber Security Program (CSP), and other sources.
• Monitor industry accepted standards for configurations and services, and help define LC best methods and practices.
• Provide technical guidance on new technologies and innovations that impact the security posture of LC systems.
• Perform penetration testing against LC systems and provide feedback to staff and management on findings and remediation steps.

Computer Engineer, Livermore Computing, November 2015 - Present

• Application developer providing support and technical guidance to LLNL code teams.
• Develop and support Python packaging for integration with Livermore Computing resources and clusters.
• Administrator for six Atlassian instances running across various networks, serving approximately 3000 end users.

Open Source Evangelist, February 2015 - Present

• Principal Investigator on projects building the Open Source Software community at LLNL.
• Social media agent in charge of @LLNL_OpenSource on Twitter.
• Webmaster for LLNL Software Catalog.
• Primary Administrator for LLNL GitHub Organization.

Computer Engineer, Persistics, October 2012 - November 2015

• Proposed and led effort to move custom analytic tools into cloud based SaaS architecture to allow migration away from stove-piped solutions for common analysis efforts.
• Provide critical support and direction on topics including H264 video compression, object tracking, CUDA / GPU development, and full system design optimizations.
• Led redesign of code base (~ 0.5 million LOC) from custom build script over to CMake while reducing the complexity of the code in the process.

Administrator, Institutional Atlassian Suite, May 2013 - April 2018

• Volunteered to lead administration and advocacy for institutional instance of Atlassian tool suite supporting Engineering and Global Security divisions of the laboratory.
• Made several presentations on technologies including Git, Stash/BitBucket, and workflow management to laboratory personnel.

Summer Intern, Persistics, June 2012 - October 2012

• Supported the Persistics project with development and optimization of CUDA kernels for both new and existing code.
• Led optimization of image processing pipeline from Fermi to Kepler GPU’s to support real time processing requirements.

Summer Intern, Engineering Technology Division, June 2011 - September 2011

• Surveyed CUDA, Fortress, and Charm++ parallel programming languages for their suitability for exascale computing at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Summer Intern, Engineering Technology Division, June 2010 - September 2010

• Worked extensively with CUDA technology to develop benchmarking and stress testing applications in support of the JIEDDO project.
• Developed a real time tracking application for tracking and identifying target position, orientation, and velocity, with CUDA enabled acceleration.

Professional Activities / Technical Ability

Certifications

• SANS GPEN (Analyst #12106), December 2017
• SANS GSEC (Analyst #40434), March 2017

Open Source Project Contributions

• Primary Administrator for LLNL GitHub Organization
• Lead / Core Maintainer:
  • pshtt
  • domain-scan
  • scraper
  • pycodestyle
• GitHub: https://github.com/IanLee1521
• BitBucket: https://bitbucket.org/IanLee1521

Memberships / Organizations

• SANS GIAC Advisory Board, 2017 - Present
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2009 - Present
• Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2008 - Present

Masters of Science in Computer Engineering, University of California - Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, October 2012

Bachelors of Science in Engineering in Computer Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, June 2009

Guest Posts / Interviews

• I. Lee, The case for open source software, 18F Blog, June 2018, Blog Post
• I. Lee, How one national lab is opening up code without compromising national security, FedScoop Post, September 2016, Article

Presentations

• I. Lee, Post Exploitation in Developer Environments, SANS Pen Test Hack Fest Summit, November 2018, Slides
• I. Lee, *At the heart of a Supercomputer, is Open Source Software”, RedHat OPEN FIRST DC, September 2018
• I. Lee, How Open Source Supports the Largest Computers on the Planet, DOE Exascale Computing Project Best Practices Webinar, July 2018, Slides, Video
• I. Lee, How Open Source Collaboration Benefits Cyber Security, Department of Energy CyberCon, June 2018, Slides
• I. Lee, Open Source in Service to National Security, Code For America / Code.gov Meetup, May 2018, Slides
• I. Lee, Your Secrets are Showing! How to find if your developers are leaking secrets, BSidesSF 2018, April 2018, Slides, Video
• I. Lee, 2018 State of Open Source, Software Improvement Networking Group, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, March 2018, Slides
• I. Lee, Open Source Workflows at LLNL, Code.gov Bi-weekly Call, January 2018, Slides
• I. Lee, U.S. Adoption of HTTPS, CyberFest 2017, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, October 2017, Slides
• I. Lee, Developing Open Source in Service to National Security, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Invited Talk), June 2017, Slides
• I. Lee, Introduction to Git, Computation Summer Scholar Program, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, June 2016
• I. Lee, Developing Open Source in Service to National Security, University of California - Santa Cruz (Invited Talk), February 2017
• I. Lee, Developing Open Source in Service to National Security, GitHub Universe, September 2016, Slides, Video
• I. Lee, Open Source Birds of a Feather, Software Improvement Networking Group, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, August 2016
• I. Lee, pep8 vs PEP-8, Lightning Talk, PyCon 2016, Slides
• I. Lee, Introduction to Git, Computation Summer Scholar Program, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, July 2016, Slides
• I. Lee, Towards Open Source and Collaboration, Software Improvement Networking Group, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, February 2016, Slides
• I. Lee, Stash Administration, Atlassian Administrators Meeting, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, August 2014
• I. Lee, Git Tutorial: Managing Workflows, Software Improvement Networking Group, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, January 2014
• I. Lee, Git Tutorial Series Part III: Merging & Workflows, Software Improvement Networking Group, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, November 2013
• I. Lee, Git / Stash, Software Improvement Networking Group, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, August 2013

Technical Reports

• R. Cook, E. Dube, I. Lee, L. Nau, C. Sherada, and F. Wang, Survey of Novel Programming Models for Parallelizing Applications at Exascale, LLNL-TR-515971, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, November 2011

Posters

• I. Lee and P. Top, Real Time Video Tracking on CUDA-Accelerated GPUs, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Summer Student Poster Symposium, Livermore, CA, August 2010
• I. Lee, Pixel Based Lithography on NVIDIA GPUs, ACM Student Research Competition, Design Automation Conference (DAC 2010), Anaheim, CA, June 2010
• I. Lee, J. Renau, and J. Mahai, Making the Most of your Hardware: Micro-Benchmarks on NVIDIA GPUs, SURF-IT Poster Presentation, University of California - Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, August 2008

Masters Thesis

• Dynamic Instruction Fusion

• Eagle Eye Award, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 2017
• Director’s Institutional Award, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 2017
• Director’s Institutional Operational Excellence, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 2015
• Excellence in Teaching, University of California - Santa Cruz, 2012 - 2013