Alex Pinto
Briefings Review Board (Enterprise Secuirty) at Black Hat
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Pinto is an enterprise security leader and data-driven researcher with over two decades of experience building security solutions and 13 years in senior roles, currently leading Verizon’s Threat Intelligence organization and serving on Black Hat’s Briefings Review Board. He guided the DBIR team and shepherded the product evolution of an acquired startup into Verizon Autonomous Threat Hunting, blending product management with hands-on machine learning for detection and hunting. A founder of the MLSec Project and former co-founder/Chief Data Scientist of Niddel, he brings rare expertise in applying ML and data science to real-world threat intelligence and automated hunting workflows. His open-source contributions include tooling to harvest and enrich threat indicators, reflecting a practical focus on data acquisition, IP/FQDN processing, and robustness against collection issues. A frequent speaker at Black Hat and RSA and a Harvard Extension data science alumnus, he combines academic rigor with operational leadership across global SOC builds and incident research. Based in San Francisco, he is known for turning complex security telemetry into actionable, scalable defenses.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de JaneiroExtension School Graduate Program, Data Science, Extension School Graduate Program, Data Science at Harvard Extension School
French, English
Github Skills (8)
threat-intelligence10
osi10
python10
data-processing9
regular-expression9
security8
ip-address7
ip7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mlsecproject/combine
Feb 2014 - Jul 2016
Tool to gather Threat Intelligence indicators from publicly available sources
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:2 releases, 119 commits, 26 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the `harvest.py` script, which is responsible for gathering threat intelligence data. Their contributions include adding a user agent to bypass blocks, fixing nomenclature related to host entities, and implementing exception handling for local files. Furthermore, the user made changes to the `winnower.py` and `thresher.py` files, refining the code to parse and enrich the harvested data to include improvements on IP and FQDN processing. These changes suggest a focus on data acquisition, processing, and potentially, security-related enhancements.
threat-intelligence
mlsecproject/tiq-test
Mar 2014 - Oct 2015
Threat Intelligence Quotient Test - Dataviz and Statistical Analysis of TI feeds
Contributions:1 release, 84 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 6 months
data-vizthreat-intelligence
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