Dakota Cahill

Solo: C++ gameplay, level design · Unreal Engine 5.6 · Solo

Third-person obstacle course in Unreal Engine 5.6 and C++. Moving and rotating platforms driven by a reusable C++ actor with designer-tunable velocity, distance, and rotation.

TeamLogic IT · New York, NY · Hybrid

• Engineer and operate Microsoft 365 and Azure environments (Entra ID, Intune, Exchange Online, VMs, SQL, Backup Vault) across 9+ client organizations
• Build PowerShell and NinjaRMM automation for endpoint remediation: EDR agent deployment, compliance fixes, and RMM-triggered self-healing scripts
• Design Zero Trust architecture with Microsoft Entra Private Access (ZTNA) and Conditional Access, replacing legacy VPN with identity-based segmentation
• Run the endpoint and email security stack (SentinelOne, Blackpoint MDR, Defender, Proofpoint) and lead business-email-compromise investigations
• Author disaster recovery and incident response plans aligned to RPO/RTO targets for regulated financial and CPA clients

Petersen Games · New York, NY

• Run infrastructure and support operations for a tabletop and digital game publisher, sustaining 95% SLA (<24h) across 100+ weekly tickets through custom API integrations
• Developed backend Liquid templates for the Shopify storefront, reducing render errors by 60%
• Integrated ML-based ticket classification in Freshdesk to auto-route issues, cutting initial triage time by 40%
• Partner with engineering on backend issues for globally distributed gaming products

RFA (Fintech) · New York, NY

• Led migrations of financial institutions from on-prem Active Directory to Entra ID with full FINRA/SEC compliance
• Implemented anomaly detection with Azure Sentinel and custom scripts, reducing incident recurrence by 35%

Cipriani · New York, NY

• Wrote PowerShell and Bash automation for user provisioning and maintenance, reducing manual workload by 40%
• Built Intune MDM policies and Entra ID Conditional Access rules; configured Meraki and Barracuda networking (VLANs, site-to-site VPN)

Fanatics via Robert Half · New York, NY

• Led the NYC corporate domain migration (mail and OneDrive) with Quest Migration Manager, delivering zero downtime for executive operations

NBC via VortalSoft · New York, NY

• Supported live broadcast operations for the Today Show control room, resolving time-critical AWS and VPN issues for international contractors

Options-IT · New York, NY

• Migrated financial firms from on-prem infrastructure to Azure AD, supporting global trading stacks

Custom MCP integration suite

TypeScript · Model Context Protocol · REST APIs

• Built 10+ custom MCP servers giving Claude Code live access to PSA, RMM, documentation, identity, security, and network platforms (Autotask, NinjaOne, IT Glue, Microsoft Graph, AWS, Cloudflare, UniFi, and more)
• Reverse-engineered undocumented private APIs where no official API existed, including session-based auth and 2FA-gated logins
• Designed write-safety guardrails for production systems: per-account write opt-in, dry-run modes, and confirm-by-ID on every mutation

dakotacahill.com

Astro · TypeScript · Cloudflare Workers

• This site: a type-checked content pipeline for games, devlogs, and CV, deployed on Cloudflare

Hybrid infrastructure home lab

Windows Server 2022 · Hyper-V · Docker

• Domain controller, DNS/DHCP, GPO hardening, VLAN segmentation, and site-to-site VPN across Windows and Linux endpoints