Tyler Dalton

(Junior) – Graduation: May 2029

GPA: 4.00

• Authored ~97% of the project repository, developing a production-grade Kubernetes observability Helm chart.
• Deployed into a classified, air-gapped environment at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base for RKE2/OpenShift.
• Engineered a portable stack integrating Prometheus, Grafana, custom dashboards, exporters, and deployment runbooks.

• Designed networking labs using enterprise switching, routing, and physical infrastructure.
• Built standardized, resettable environments for real-world network deployments.
• Mentored 143 students through hands-on instruction, individualized support, and 20 weekly office hours.

• Host monitoring clients including Grafana and Prometheus for infrastructure scrapes, uptime, and observability.
• Created recursive local DNS with network-wide ad blocking and a globally accessible self-hosted VPN.
• Configured a deny-all OPNsense firewall for traffic control and inter-VLAN routing across a three-node cluster.

• Architecting and provisioning a five-node Kubernetes cluster to simulate enterprise production patterns.
• Deploying infrastructure through GitOps with Helm, Kustomize, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Building operational maturity with multi-node scheduling, role-based workloads, and documented runbooks.

• Managed a five-student team designing and presenting a phishing-awareness training platform.
• Built collaboration habits that resolved conflicts and kept the team focused and productive.
• Directed an investor-style pitch that earned first place in class rankings.

• Develop and maintain Terraform infrastructure to provision CTF servers, databases, and other services.
• Monitor more than 21 virtual machines for member sandbox access and hands-on skill development.
• Participate in bi-weekly hacking labs to understand and execute internal threat simulations on Linux machines.

• Manage an offense of more than 25 personnel, scout opponents, and develop targeted playbooks.
• Observe defensive tendencies and make real-time game-plan adjustments based on available information.