Tyler Beer

Cyber threat intelligence · Malware analysis · OSINT

Tyler Beer

I’m a cybersecurity professional and UC Davis Computer Science graduate, currently working as an IT analyst at UC Agriculture and Natural Resources. Outside my day job, I research threat actors, malware, and the infrastructure behind them, and I’ll be publishing that work here.

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Tyler Beer

Background

Education
University of California, DavisB.S. Computer Science, March 2025
Certification
CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701)
Currently
IT AnalystUC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Skills

Threat intel & OSINT
  • IOC investigation
  • Phishing analysis
  • SPF/DKIM/DMARC
  • Passive DNS
  • WHOIS/RDAP
  • Certificate transparency
  • VirusTotal
  • URLhaus
  • ThreatFox
  • OTX
Malware & forensics
  • Dynamic analysis in isolated VMs
  • Wireshark
  • Procmon
  • TCPView
  • Hatching Triage
Endpoint & ops
  • Malwarebytes EDR
  • Trellix EDR
  • Tenable Nessus
  • Sumo Logic (SIEM)
  • SmartDeploy
  • BeyondTrust
  • ServiceNow
Code
  • Python
  • Bash
  • Go
  • C/C++

Experience

  1. IT Analyst

    UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

    Apr 2026 – Present
    Davis, CA

  2. Cybersecurity Analyst Intern

    UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

    May 2025 – Apr 2026
    Davis, CA

  3. Cyber Trust & Analytics Intern

    Battelle Memorial Institute

    Sep 2024 – Dec 2024
    Columbus, OH

  4. Cybersecurity Analyst Intern

    County of San Mateo · Network Security Division

    Mar 2024 – Aug 2024
    Redwood City, CA

  5. Embedded Software Engineer Intern

    Rhombus Systems

    Jun 2023 – Sep 2023
    Sacramento, CA

  6. Software Engineer Intern

    Mapsi Photonics

    Jun 2022 – Aug 2022
    Barcelona, Spain

Publications

  1. Co-author2026

    Automating Infrastructure Surveying: A Framework for Geometric Measurements and Compliance Assessment Using Point Cloud Data

    Amin Ghafourian, Andrew Lee, Dechen Gao, Tyler Beer, Kin Yen, Iman Soltani

    IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, vol. 23, pp. 5573–5595 · DOI · arXiv

  2. Co-author2026

    Heavy Equipment Simulator Training Optimization

    Evan Sim, Anh Duong, Kevin Oghalai, Tyler Beer, Yulin Xiang, Barbara S. Linke

    Caltrans Final Report CA26-4299 · AHMCT Research Center, UC Davis

  3. Acknowledged contributor2024

    #BigTech @Minors: Social Media Algorithms Have Actionable Knowledge About Child Users and At-Risk Teens

    Martin Hilbert, Drew P. Cingel, Jingwen Zhang, Samantha L. Vigil, Jane Shawcroft, Haoning Xue, Arti Thakur, Zubair Shafiq

    SSRN · DOI

Contact

For research questions or opportunities, reach me on LinkedIn.

Tyler standing next to the #RSAC sign at RSA Conference
At RSA Conference