Andrew Pease
Elastic Security Labs Technical Lead
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Pease is an Elastic Security Labs technical lead with 11 years of security-focused engineering experience, blending threat research, incident response, and product-focused consulting across public and private sectors. At Elastic he has progressed from principal researcher to leading Threat Research and now heads Elastic Security Labs, shaping detection, telemetry, and analyst workflows for the Elastic Stack. He brings a strong operational background from a long military cyber career in the Missouri National Guard and practical enterprise threat intelligence experience from roles at Monsanto and his acquired startup Perched. A hands-on contributor to Elastic's examples repo, he crafts YARA rules, ingestion pipelines, and automation scripts that turn raw threat data into actionable detections. Known for delivering tailored, high-quality security workloads on the Elastic Stack, he pairs technical depth with leadership in both research and operationalization.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Information Systems Security, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Information Systems Security at University of Arkansas Grantham
Github Skills (16)
amazon-elasticsearch10
bash-shell10
sh10
elasticsearch10
elasticsearchquery10
security-testing10
bash10
script10
threat-intelligence10
shell10
aws-elasticsearch10
yara10
security-scan10
elasticsearch-api10
security10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/examples
Jun 2021 - Nov 2021
Home for Elasticsearch examples available to everyone. It's a great way to get started.
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:35 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Andrew contributed to the project by creating and updating security-related content. They wrote YARA rules to detect malware obfuscation techniques and developed shell scripts to gather and process threat intelligence data from various sources, including the threatfox API. The user also configured Elasticsearch pipelines and indices for ingesting and analyzing security data.
elasticsearch
peasead/the-endorser
Nov 2017 - Aug 2020
An OSINT tool that allows you to draw out relationships between people on LinkedIn via endorsements/skills.
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 2 branches in 2 years 8 months
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