Austin Merritt

Austin started his intelligence career in 2015 with the US Army as an enlisted human intelligence collector with a special concentration in the Russian language. He graduated from the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, CA, in 2016 and earned his MBA in 2019 from Angelo State University while stationed at Fort Hood, TX. After completing five years in the Army, Austin’s intelligence career in the civilian sector commenced at Digital Shadows in 2020, combining his military intelligence background with a newfound interest in cybersecurity as a Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst.