UncommonX Company Culture & Values

Describe your company culture in one word. What made you pick that word? Provide a specific, real-life example of how that word exemplifies your team and culture.
Collaborative. In a 40-person organization like ours, every teammate’s output feeds directly into another’s success. I chose “collaborative” because no siloed effort can thrive here — each engagement requires seamless handoffs across security operations, incident response, development, infrastructure and leadership.

For example, in January 2025, one of our customers suffered an unauthorized intrusion. Our SOC analysts detected the anomaly and escalated it to incident response. Leadership immediately marshaled resources, then development built bespoke dashboards to visualize the attacker’s behavior. Meanwhile, infrastructure opened up new log sources to feed real-time telemetry into those dashboards.

Within hours, we pinpointed the adversary’s lateral movements, contained the breach and prevented a ransom payment. Every function leaned in — sharing data, refining queries and validating fixes — to restore our customer’s security posture. This cross-functional synergy not only thwarted the attack but also underscored how collaboration is the engine that keeps our wheels turning.

How long have you been with the company, and what professional growth or development have you seen in that time?
I’ve been with UncommonX for over three years. When I joined, I focused primarily on individual incident investigations — triaging alerts, chasing logs and escalating when needed. Today, I’m driving the evolution of our detection logic, architecting compound queries that automatically chain detection steps and surface high-fidelity alerts.

This journey has stretched me beyond pure technical execution into strategic thinking and mentorship. I learned to be comfortable with the uncomfortable — juggling a dozen simultaneous topics, from email authentication workflows to advanced threat hunting. I now lead cross-departmental collaborations, translating frontline incident insights into production features for our development and infrastructure teams.

And I coach junior analysts, empowering them to answer the fundamental question — “Is this malicious or benign?” — without always escalating to senior staff. Through continuous hands-on projects and collective problem-solving, I’ve accelerated my technical depth in security orchestration and my soft skills in leadership and communication — transforming me from a reactive responder into a proactive architect of our platform’s future.