Andreas Herz
Senior DevOps Engineer at Stamus Networks
Schwabmünchen, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolAndreas Herz is a Technical Operations Lead with 14 years of hands-on experience in network security monitoring, engineering, and Linux-driven operations, currently leading technical ops at Stamus Networks. He combines deep open-source expertise—contributing security fixes and parser hardening to the widely used Suricata IDS/NSM project—with practical DevOps and incident response experience from roles at DCSO and makandra. Based in Schwabmünchen, Germany, he focuses on reducing alert fatigue and improving visibility through transparent, customizable NDR solutions. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic hardening of rule parsing, resource leak fixes, and subtle vulnerability mitigations that often go unnoticed until exploited. He blends engineering rigor with operational pragmatism, bridging the gap between security research and production grade network detection. Trained in computer science at the University of Augsburg, he favors open source as a force multiplier for resilient security tooling.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Augsburg
German, English
Github Skills (7)
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intrusion-detection10
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
OISF/suricata
Nov 2015 - Apr 2021
Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine developed by the OISF and the Suricata community.
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:18 reviews, 85 commits, 96 PRs in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Andreas primarily contributed to the Suricata network intrusion detection system by addressing vulnerabilities and improving the software's security posture. They fixed typos and resource leaks. They also fixed incorrect value checks and made improvements to the rule parsing engine by addressing potential vulnerabilities related to unescaped double quotes and handling of incorrect quotes within rules. Additionally, the user worked on improving the parsing of threshold configuration rules.
git-repositorynsmipssecurityids
norg/suricata-verify
May 2019 - Jun 2024
Suricata Verification Tests - Testing Suricata Output
Contributions:5 pushes, 11 branches in 5 years 2 months
testingsuricataverification
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