Summary
Daniel Chapman is a systems analyst and security operations professional with 10+ years of experience building scalable defenses against abuse, fraud, and account takeovers. As a Staff Security Analyst at GitHub (2017–2022), he led threat hunting, threat intelligence, and abuse remediation at scale, shaping detection signals and ML-driven countermeasures while collaborating with product and engineering teams. He is deeply hands-on with Python and data notebooks to extract patterns from logs and database traces, turning insights into robust playbooks and automated defenses. His career spans CTO and lead developer roles alongside security-focused positions at Aiven and The Linux Foundation, giving him a rare blend of software engineering, security operations, and incident response. Based in Japan, he brings an international perspective and a track record of cross-functional collaboration with vendors, customers, and internal teams to close abuse vectors. He is known for turning fuzzy signals into auditable, scalable protections and for proactively drafting security guidance that accelerates team learning.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Computer Science, Bachelors, Computer Science at Deakin University
Bachelor of Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science at La Trobe University
English, Japanese