================================================================================ SOCIAL PROFILES — Fictional Employee Data for Acme Corporation SYNTHETIC DATA FOR CTF CHALLENGE — All persons, usernames, and details are fake. ================================================================================ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PROFILE 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PROFILE 2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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') -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PROFILE 3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PROFILE 4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PROFILE 5 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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) ================================================================================ 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 ================================================================================ END OF SOCIAL PROFILES ================================================================================