ZacharyKessel
I find the signal in the noise — the malicious login, the silent failure, the one record that shouldn't be there.
Threat intelligence, incident response, identity resolution, and the applied machine learning that ties them together — built and led at enterprise healthcare scale.
A cybersecurity and data leader who turns sprawling, messy telemetry into decisions leadership can act on.
Over eight years at a Fortune 10 healthcare enterprise I've moved from building data pipelines to leading the teams and platforms that protect members. Along the way I've designed scalable logging and monitoring frameworks, automated ETL pipelines, stood up an enterprise threat-intelligence platform, and built end-to-end credential-response systems.
I work where data science meets security: identity resolution, incident response, threat intelligence, and generative AI. I care about clean infrastructure, measurable risk reduction, and advising senior leadership through the most sensitive privacy and security matters — while bringing engineers along as I go.
Currently pursuing an M.S. in Cybersecurity at NYU alongside the day job.
Outcomes worth surfacing.
Replaced proprietary logging and monitoring with an open-source framework on a compliant DevOps pipeline, delivering significant cost avoidance.
Architected detection for problematic updates to member contact information, reducing downstream customer-service engagements and compliance risk.
Lead data investigation and reporting for major cyber incident response, coordinating across external consultants and internal privacy, compliance, and legal partners.
Built a pipeline delivering statistically de-identified clinical data to a 100-plus data-science team, raising refresh cadence and reliability.
A decade of ascent at a Fortune 10 healthcare enterprise.
Tools & capabilities.
›Data & AI
›DevOps
›Cloud
›Languages
›Web
›Platforms
New York University.
Minor in Web Programming & Applications
Let's talk security & data.
Open to conversations about threat intelligence, incident response, applied ML, and leadership. The best way to reach me is LinkedIn.