Adam Kniffen
Principal Detection Engineer at HubSpot
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
Bachelors of Science in Business Administration,, Bachelors of Science in Business Administration, at Saint Louis University
Github Skills (26)
yara9
scanning8
rhel8
automated-deployment7
helm5
script5
security5
charts5
kubernetes5
cybersecurity4
python4
rabbitmq-cluster3
kill3
yum2
ad-hoc2
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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