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About

Samuel Cala.

Security Engineer | SOC & SOAR Automation | Security Development

Security Engineer at IT Audit Labs focused on SOC operations, SOAR playbook development, and security automation.

I design and ship automated response workflows that support incident detection, investigation, and remediation: phishing, suspicious access, anomalous behavior.

Beyond security ops I build full-stack products on the Cloudflare edge — Workers, Durable Objects, D1, Astro SSR, Hono, React 19 — and care a lot about reducing manual toil through detection engineering, process optimization, and aligning technical work with audit standards.

SOAR Detection Engineering SOC Ops Automation Audit Alignment
Quest log · since Jan 2026
Currently:
  • Security Engineer at IT Audit Labs
  • Designing & shipping SOAR playbooks for SOC environments
  • Investigating phishing, suspicious access, anomalous behavior
  • Reducing manual effort through automation & process optimization
  • Aligning SOC ops with security controls and audit standards
02 · Focus areas

What I work on

SOAR DEVELOPMENT

Designing, building, and improving automated response workflows that support incident detection, investigation, and remediation.

INCIDENT RESPONSE

Analyzing security alerts and standardizing responses to phishing, suspicious access, and anomalous behavior.

PROCESS & AUDIT

Aligning technical SOC operations with security controls, procedures, and industry best practices.