Aubrey Nilica
Washington DC-Baltimore Area
Summary
Technical Project Manager with deep cybersecurity and engineering expertise. Proven track record leading complex, multi-platform security initiatives, bridging engineering and customer teams, and delivering high-impact outcomes. Known for operational excellence, technical credibility, and consistently exceeding delivery expectations.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
Work History
Technical Project Manager
Cyderes
Remote
07.2025 - Current
- Selected as the first Technical Project Manager at the company due to a unique combination of deep technical expertise and strong client-facing communication skills.
- Lead end-to-end technical onboarding for new MSSP clients, serving as both project manager and hands-on onboarding engineer.
- Manage complex, multi-workstream onboarding projects, integrating customers across multiple SIEM and EDR platforms, including CrowdStrike, Google SecOps, SentinelOne, firewalls, vulnerability management, and patch management solutions.
- Act as the primary technical point of contact, coordinating across SOC, engineering, product, and customer stakeholders to drive alignment and execution.
- Translate customer environments and security requirements into actionable onboarding plans, timelines, and technical configurations.
- Brought in to lead the largest and most complex client onboarding in company history, consisting of 58 individual operating units in under eight months.
Telemetry Engineer
Cyderes
Kansas City
05.2023 - 06.2025
- Contributed directly to parser creation and enhancement to ingest and normalize critical security telemetry across diverse data sources in Google SecOps.
- Partnered with managed services clients to integrate log telemetry into the Cyderes platform.
- Assisted customers with SSO integrations, networking issues, logging pipelines, and data validation.
- Selected as Employee of the Quarter (from 5,000+ employees) for supporting a client during an active security breach, including rapidly developing a custom parser to enable real-time analysis.
- Promoted within 12 months due to exceptional performance and organizational impact, one year ahead of schedule.
- Consistently ranked as the Top Performer of the Week within the telemetry engineering team.
- Recognized by leadership for setting a new standard of excellence through productivity, quality, and team collaboration.
- Earned high praise from project leadership for reliability, ownership, and execution.
- Participated in the 2023 Code-a-Thon, co-developing a dynamic linting tool to analyze parsers for consistency, quality, and potential defects.
Security Analyst
Cyderes
Kansas City
06.2022 - 05.2023
- Conducted SOC triage, threat hunting, and incident investigations using SIEM platforms.
- Analyzed network, endpoint, and identity telemetry to identify and respond to security threats.
- Partnered with engineering teams to improve detections and alert quality.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Missouri State University
Springfield, MO01.2022
Skills
- Technical Project Management
- Enterprise client onboarding (MSSP)
- Cross-functional leadership and stakeholder management
- Customer relationship management
- Google SecOps (Chronicle)
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- CrowdStrike Next-Gen SIEM
- SIEM architecture, log ingestion, and normalization
- EDR integration and enablement
- Java
- Logstash (pipeline and parser development)
Timeline
Technical Project Manager
Cyderes
07.2025 - Current
Telemetry Engineer
Cyderes
05.2023 - 06.2025
Security Analyst
Cyderes
06.2022 - 05.2023
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Missouri State University