Tony Cavella
Senior Lead Engineer at Booz Allen Hamilton
Glen Burnie, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolTony Cavella is a Senior Lead Engineer with over a decade of experience designing, hardening, and operating complex virtual and tactical systems for DoD and enterprise environments. He combines deep Linux/UNIX and virtualization expertise (Red Hat Virtualization/KVM, VMware) with hands-on skills in automation (bash, Ansible), containerization, PKI and network/security testing to deliver resilient, auditable platforms. A former Army systems lead, he has deployed and maintained mission-critical collection and secure-access systems under austere conditions and led accreditation and CCRI/SAV/C&A compliance efforts. At Booz Allen he builds realistic lab environments that replicate enterprise WAN/LAN/cloud interactions to expose security gaps and automate device backups and repeatable test workflows. Known for rapid platform mastery and pragmatic scripting, he blends operational discipline with engineering rigor to translate tactical requirements into scalable, secure solutions.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Cyber/Computer Forensics and Counterterrorism, Bachelor’s Degree, Cyber/Computer Forensics and Counterterrorism at University of Maryland University CollegeHigh School Graduate, High School Graduate at Calvary Baptist Church AcademyComputer Science, Computer Science at Anne Arundel Community College
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Github Skills (37)
dashboard10
blocker10
dnsmasq10
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shell10
raspberry-pi10
ocsp9
ansible-role8
pki8
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cdp7
bash7
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
acavella/acavella
Jul 2020 - May 2026
Contributions:93 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 11 months
acavella/cavella.com
Jan 2022 - Feb 2023
Source for cavella.com personal site.
Contributions:450 commits, 46 PRs, 456 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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