Summary
Anthony Astarita is an Elastic Security Specialist with eight years of experience designing, deploying, and hardening ELK Stack solutions for finance and enterprise clients. Currently at SEMplicity Inc., he focuses on search and security use cases built on Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash, bringing prior in-house expertise from Bank of America Merrill Lynch. His background blends applied data science—developing XGBoost and change-point models for NYC building energy analytics—with full-stack and AR engineering experience, giving him a rare mix of observability, analytics, and user-facing system knowledge. Anthony has repeatedly translated research-grade models into production-ready tooling and improved detection accuracy and usability in real-world deployments. Based in New York, he is comfortable operating at the intersection of security, search, and data engineering for regulated industries. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem solver who leverages both code and statistical insight to close the loop between data signals and operational response.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Mathematics, Senior, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Mathematics, Senior at City University of New York-College of Staten Island
Bachelor's of Science, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor's of Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at Macaulay Honors College at The City University of New York