Hello.
My name is Justin Fortin. I am a Software Developer at NCR Corporation I hold a B.S. in Computer Science from Kennesaw State University I've been interested in technology for most of my life. I got my own computer at a very early age by proving (on accident) that I knew just enough to be dangerous on my parent's computer, and have been learning by clicking first and asking questions later since then.
My first real interest in programming started early on in high school when I became interested in web development. I started off basic, spending a lot of time bouncing between free webhosts uploading my Dreamweaver templated site. My junior year in high school I joined my school's FIRST Robotics team (FRC Team 2974) and took over as the webmaster, redesigning the team website. While on the team, I also had the opportunity to work on the engineering team, designing and building our competition robot, and worked with the programming team to develop the control system.
After high school, I initially attended Georgia Southern University as an Electrical Engineering major, but I quickly discovered engineering wasn't for me. After the first year, I switched both majors and schools, becoming a Comupter Science major at Southern Polytechnic State University. A year after my transfer, the Georgia Board of Regents made the decision to merge my school with another larger school, Kennesaw State University. I graduated from the program in December of 2016.
During my time at Kennesaw, I had the opportunity to spend a summer in Lakeland, Florida at the Publix Super Markets corporate headquarters as an intern in the IT Security Operations department. I developed a threat management program to help identify potential threats to the company's infrastructure and mitigate them before they became a problem. I created two custom coded tools to automatically import potential threat data from multiple sources, automatically analyze it for usefulness, and present the information to an analyst for further action. I also had the opportunity to observe the day to day operations of the team, and got to learn about a wide range of the security solutions the company uses to protect itself.
In my personal time I still can't manage to get away from the computer. The majority of my personal projects are written in Python, but I've used several other languages for school assignments or to contribute to other projects on GitHub. I also run a small home lab with a few servers and some older enterprise networking equipment to both host my projects and learn about server administration and networking. I am also an avid music fan, and I have a Last.fm profile where you can see almost everything I listen to. It's a bit of a mixed bag, mostly a combination of movie/tv scores and music from video games. I also play a number of video games, and I have profiles on Steam, Battle.net, League of Legends, and EVE Online, to name a few.