Alec Carpenter
Principal Applied Engineer at Elastic
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlec Carpenter is a Principal Applied Engineer based in the Washington DC–Baltimore area with a strong blend of DoD cyber operations and cloud-native infrastructure experience. Over seven years he transitioned from Navy DevOps work to leadership roles at Elastic, focusing on secure automation, observability, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code. He pairs hands-on engineering with teaching experience as an adjunct professor and advanced academic credentials in cybersecurity, enabling him to translate complex compliance and mission requirements into practical, auditable systems. Known for integrating logging and monitoring into secure delivery pipelines, he brings a pragmatic emphasis on operational security that reduces risk while accelerating deployment.
5 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Networks and Cybersecurity, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Networks and Cybersecurity at University of Maryland Global CampusJoint Cyber Analysis CourseMaster of Science - MS, Cybersecurity, Master of Science - MS, Cybersecurity at ECPI University
Github Skills (41)
metricbeat10
heartbeat10
kibana10
filebeat10
terraform-provider10
packetbeat10
logstash10
elasticcloud10
elasticsearch10
elastic10
elasticstack10
visualizations10
observability9
terraform9
integrations9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
tehbooom/integrations
Jun 2023 - Jul 2026
Elastic Integrations
Contributions:109 pushes, 10 branches in 3 years 1 month
tehbooom/dotfiles
Dec 2021 - Jan 2025
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
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