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SOCIAL PROFILES — Fictional Employee Data for Acme Corporation
SYNTHETIC DATA FOR CTF CHALLENGE — All persons, usernames, and details are fake.
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PROFILE 1
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Name:           Rachel Okonkwo
Title:          VP of Engineering
Department:     Engineering
Location:       San Mateo, CA
LinkedIn URL:   linkedin.com/in/rachel-okonkwo-fake (fictional)

Summary:
  Seasoned engineering leader with 15+ years of experience building
  distributed systems at scale. Currently leading a 60-person engineering
  org at Acme Corporation. Previously held senior roles at CloudScale
  Systems and DataBridge Technologies.

Experience:
  - VP of Engineering, Acme Corporation (2021 - Present)
    Leading platform, backend, and infrastructure teams. Overseeing
    migration from monolith to microservices on Kubernetes (EKS).
  - Senior Director of Engineering, CloudScale Systems (2017 - 2021)
  - Staff Engineer, DataBridge Technologies (2012 - 2017)

Skills:
  Kubernetes, AWS (EKS, RDS, S3, Lambda), Terraform, Go, Python,
  PostgreSQL, Redis, gRPC, System Design, Team Leadership

Education:
  - M.S. Computer Science, Stanford University, 2010
  - B.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Michigan, 2008

Activity:
  - Speaker at KubeCon NA 2024: "Scaling Microservices at Acme: Lessons
    from a 2-Year Migration"
  - Published article: "Why We Chose gRPC Over REST for Internal Services"
    on the Acme Engineering Blog

GitHub Username: rokonkwo-dev
  Notable repos: acme-service-mesh-config, k8s-deploy-scripts


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PROFILE 2
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Name:           David Chen
Title:          Senior DevOps Engineer
Department:     IT Operations / Platform Engineering
Location:       San Mateo, CA
LinkedIn URL:   linkedin.com/in/david-chen-devops-fake (fictional)

Summary:
  DevOps engineer focused on CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation,
  and cloud security. Passionate about GitOps and infrastructure-as-code.

Experience:
  - Senior DevOps Engineer, Acme Corporation (2020 - Present)
    Maintaining Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, Terraform modules for AWS,
    and Kubernetes cluster operations. Led adoption of HashiCorp Vault
    for secrets management.
  - DevOps Engineer, RapidDeploy Inc. (2017 - 2020)

Skills:
  Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes,
  AWS (EC2, EKS, IAM, CloudWatch), HashiCorp Vault, Prometheus,
  Grafana, Bash, Python

Education:
  - B.S. Information Technology, San Jose State University, 2017

Activity:
  - Blog post: "Our Jenkins Pipeline: From 45 Minutes to 8 Minutes"
    (mentions Jenkins version 2.387 and custom Groovy shared libraries)
  - Commented on GitHub issue #4217 in terraform-provider-aws about
    an IAM policy edge case affecting their EKS cluster

GitHub Username: dchen-ops
  Notable repos: terraform-acme-infra, ansible-hardening-playbooks,
  dotfiles (contains .bashrc with aliases referencing internal hostnames:
  alias sshjump='ssh -J bastion.internal.acmecorp.com')


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PROFILE 3
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Name:           Samantha Liu
Title:          Security Engineer
Department:     Information Security
Location:       Remote (Portland, OR)
LinkedIn URL:   linkedin.com/in/samantha-liu-infosec-fake (fictional)

Summary:
  Application security engineer with a focus on cloud security posture
  management and penetration testing. OSCP and AWS Security Specialty
  certified.

Experience:
  - Security Engineer, Acme Corporation (2022 - Present)
    Running vulnerability management program, triaging bug bounty
    submissions (via HackerOne), and hardening AWS infrastructure.
    Implemented Wiz for cloud security posture management.
  - Penetration Tester, CyberEdge Consulting (2019 - 2022)

Skills:
  Burp Suite, Metasploit, Nmap, Wiz, AWS Security Hub, Splunk,
  Python, Go, OWASP Top 10, Threat Modeling, SAST/DAST

Certifications:
  OSCP, AWS Certified Security - Specialty, CompTIA Security+

Education:
  - B.S. Cybersecurity, Oregon State University, 2019

Activity:
  - Talk at BSides Portland 2024: "Bug Bounty Triage at Scale:
    What We Learned Running HackerOne for 2 Years"
  - Mentioned in conference talk that Acme uses Wiz + Splunk SIEM
    and has a HackerOne program (scope: *.acmecorp.com)

GitHub Username: s-liu-sec
  Notable repos: cloud-sec-checklist, oscp-notes


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PROFILE 4
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Name:           James Kowalski
Title:          Full Stack Developer
Department:     Product Engineering
Location:       San Mateo, CA
LinkedIn URL:   linkedin.com/in/james-kowalski-dev-fake (fictional)

Summary:
  Full stack developer working on Acme's customer-facing web platform.
  Enjoys building performant UIs and robust APIs.

Experience:
  - Full Stack Developer, Acme Corporation (2023 - Present)
    Working on the main customer portal (React + Node.js). Building
    REST APIs backed by PostgreSQL. Recently integrated Stripe for
    payment processing.
  - Junior Developer, WebForge Studios (2021 - 2023)

Skills:
  React, TypeScript, Node.js, Express, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker,
  REST APIs, GraphQL, Stripe API, Jest, Cypress

Education:
  - B.S. Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2021

Activity:
  - Stack Overflow answer mentioning Acme's API gateway uses Kong
    running on EKS with custom rate-limiting plugins
  - Personal blog post: "Migrating from Create React App to Vite:
    Our Experience at Acme"

GitHub Username: jkowalski42
  Notable repos: react-component-library (forked from acme-internal,
  accidentally left public for 3 days in October 2025 before being
  made private — cached version may exist)


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PROFILE 5
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Name:           Maria Santos
Title:          Data Engineer
Department:     Data & Analytics
Location:       Remote (Denver, CO)
LinkedIn URL:   linkedin.com/in/maria-santos-data-fake (fictional)

Summary:
  Data engineer building and maintaining Acme's analytics platform.
  Focused on real-time data pipelines and data warehouse optimization.

Experience:
  - Senior Data Engineer, Acme Corporation (2021 - Present)
    Built the real-time event pipeline using Apache Kafka and Apache
    Flink. Manages the Snowflake data warehouse and dbt models.
    Migrated legacy ETL jobs from Airflow 1.x to Airflow 2.x.
  - Data Engineer, InsightMetrics Corp. (2018 - 2021)

Skills:
  Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, Apache Airflow, Snowflake, dbt,
  Python, SQL, Spark, AWS (S3, Glue, Kinesis, Redshift), Terraform

Education:
  - M.S. Data Science, University of Colorado Boulder, 2018
  - B.S. Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin, 2016

Activity:
  - PyCon 2025 poster session: "Real-Time Anomaly Detection in
    Financial Transaction Data Using Flink + ML"
  - Airflow Summit 2024 talk: "Lessons from Migrating 200 DAGs
    from Airflow 1.10 to 2.7"
  - Mentioned that Acme's data infrastructure runs on AWS us-west-2

GitHub Username: msantos-data
  Notable repos: flink-anomaly-detection, dbt-acme-models (private,
  but README was briefly visible in a conference demo screenshot)


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OSINT NOTES FOR ANALYSTS:
- Email pattern appears to be: first_initial.lastname@acmecorp.com
  (confirmed: r.okonkwo@acmecorp.com, d.chen@acmecorp.com from WHOIS)
- Technology stack indicators: AWS (EKS, RDS, S3), Kubernetes, Jenkins,
  Terraform, PostgreSQL, React, Node.js, Kong API Gateway, Kafka,
  Snowflake, Wiz, Splunk, HackerOne bug bounty
- Region: primarily AWS us-west-2
- Internal hostnames referenced: bastion.internal.acmecorp.com
- James Kowalski's public repo fork may have cached sensitive data
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END OF SOCIAL PROFILES
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