Advisory Board Member Profile
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Martin Sommers
Pearl Capital Business Funding, LLC.
Senior Cloud Engineer |
Areas of Expertise:
Cybersecurity Basics
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Martin has been passionate about technology since his childhood, which eventually bloomed into a full-fledged career. He has cultivated experience in various different roles across incredibly diverse environments to become a jack of all trades in the world of IT. He has first-hand experience with Petya ransomware recovery as well as a wide range of knowledge in subjects such as system and network administration, enterprise task automation, monitoring solutions, scripting (primarily Powershell and Python), cybersecurity, identity and access management (IAM), and AWS.
Martin is currently employed as a Senior Cloud Engineer for Pearl Capital Business Funding, a fast growing provider of alternative small business financing in the US and a fintech services provider to one of the top 10 SBA PPP lenders of 2021. He is responsible for managing his company's business critical cloud infrastructure on the AWS platform, using various different technologies (Grafana, Datadog, Cloudflare, ActiveBatch, and native AWS solutions such as EC2, RDS, VPC, Cloudwatch, CloudTrail, Lambda, IAM, Security Hub, and GuardDuty) to effectively orchestrate a well-synergized, secure, and efficient environment for smooth day-to-day business operations. In his personal life, Martin enjoys hiking, traveling, video games, and chess. Some of his more distinguished trips include a 2500+ mile road trip from Seattle, WA to Phoenix, AZ as well as a recent trip to Japan in March 2020, traversing solo through many districts of Tokyo as well as Kanazawa. In addition to his day job, he also has worked doing lighting production for nightclubs, private events, and concerts across the Eastern US with one of his best friends from high school.
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