Adam Kniffen
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Kniffen is a Principal Detection Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building detection, automation, and response capabilities across high-growth tech and security-focused organizations. He has progressed from military and intelligence roles into product-facing security engineering positions at companies like Trend Micro, Reddit, Square, Benchling, and HubSpot, blending operational rigor with scalable engineering. Known for "fighting evil" and serving others, Adam focuses on creating practical, auditable detection systems that reduce mean time to detection and empower incident responders. His background in all-source intelligence and incident response gives him a unique edge in threat hunting and analyst enablement, turning complex threat data into actionable telemetry. Based in St. Louis, he pairs security domain expertise with product sensibility from earlier PM/engineering work, making him effective at shipping tooling that teams actually use.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Military Intelligence, General, Military Intelligence, General at US Army Intelligence Center of ExcellenceBachelors of Science in Business Administration, Bachelors of Science in Business Administration at Saint Louis University John Cook School of Business
Github Skills (29)
rhel8
automated-deployment7
suricata7
scanning7
charts6
yara5
helm5
script5
zeek5
docker5
kubernetes4
cybersecurity4
security4
python4
k8s3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
AnalystsFirst/AnalystsFirst.github.io
Nov 2015 - Apr 2020
The Site
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 2 branches in 4 years 5 months
jekyll
akniffe1/docked_crits
Jan 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
containersdockercomposegradeproduction-grade
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