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Max Resing

contact (at) maxresing.de

Passionate about networking protocols, the Internet, and how to measure it. Overall a curious mind and problem solver. Interests & profession: Big Data, DNS, Data Eng., DDoS, InfoSec, Threat Intel

Welcome to my little corner on the Internet. My name is Max Resing, and I am a passionate Data Engineer, Scientist and Researcher with a specialization in Cyber Security. Besides my contributions to academia, and my continous curiosity to drive innovation at Netscout, I work on various projects to better understand the Internet's ecosystem such as BGP, DNS, NTP, active and passive probing.

My education started with an apprenticeship to a Software Engineer at a MSE in Germany. I continued my higher education with a Bachelor's in Technical Computer Science at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. After graduating cum laude, a Master's degree in Computer Science followed, while focussing not on one, but on the specializations: Data Science & Technology as well as Cyber Security.

The mix of both is where I found my calling. During my Master's, I first worked as part of the OpenINTEL team, where I supported the development of a continoued monitoring system for the deployment of the DNSSEC for some European TLDs. Later, I joined the threat intelligence team ASERT at Netscout.

My curiosity, my quick understanding of novel data, and my ability to extract business value from data of various domains makes me a valuable asset to the threat intelligence unit. I am proud to have my contributions recognized with a promotion to a Senior a year after my full-time debut in the team.

Updates


Major refactoring of my homepage

Read here the reasons why and how I refactored my website. The refactor was no rocket science, but it surely future-proofs my motivation to regularly update and extend this website.

Added Blogging to my Website

For a long time, I struggled with adding blogging features to my website. I liked the simplicity, of my deployment pipeline, so it should not be a complete overhaul. Instead I worked on my own (what I like to call a) site generator. The project is dubbed lopsgen - an acronym of "Lua-based oppinionated site generator".

Netscout, Arbor, and I

After my summer internship at Netscout ASERT ended, I was approached to consider a longer-term commitment with the ASERT (former Arbor Networks) team. After thinking through this offer, I decided to agree to this opportunity. In early November, we arranged the contract details and I signed in restrospect for November 01. Since then, I am a research analyst in part-time. I support the ASERT team which is mainly focussed on identifying and mitigating the DDoS threat on the Internet.

News About my Master Degree

In summer 2022, a year after my Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science started I moved over to another specialization: Cyber Security. Although, this extends my Master by a full year I believe that it will be beneficial for me and my carrier in the long-term. More about the motivation in the blog post.

NANOG83

The talk is recorded and online After my bachelor's thesis was published, I was contacted and asked whether I could consider submitting this topic to NANOG, the North American Network Operators' Group. With a bit of guidance through my shepherd, my talk was accepted, and I was invited to talk at the next NANOG conference, [NANOG83](https://www.nanog.org/events/nanog-83/).

Facing a new Challenge as a DevOps Engineer

After more than a year working as a full-stack developer at [Extendas](https://www.extendas.com/) I decided to face a new challenge. At Extendas, I was working on a cloud solution to centrally monitor peripherals and hardware of a customer's site. This innovative approach aims to speed up the service processes of gas stations and washing streets. After deploying the first version as a pilot I decided to move on and search for a new challenge. During the summer break, I was asked to work on a project to evaluate the health of DNSSEC compliant records within two TLDs of Europe. The project team is part of DACS at the University of Twente. After the summer break, I was asked to continue my work on this project. My role is that of a DevOps engineer.

Best Paper Award

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