Ashwin Patil
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarAshwin Patil is an experienced information security engineer and blue-team specialist based in Redmond, Washington, with roughly a decade-long focus on security monitoring, incident response, and applied data science. He blends hands-on backend and DevOps skills—improving Azure Function-based connectors and AWS integrations—with data-driven threat hunting, as evidenced by contributions to Azure Sentinel notebooks and msticpy geoip enhancements. Ashwin has practical experience refining ingestion pipelines and geoIP tooling, replacing legacy dependencies and improving local MaxMind database handling to make investigations more reliable. Comfortable shipping production code and investigative notebooks, he operates at the intersection of engineering and security analytics, turning telemetry into actionable context. Active in open-source security projects, he brings a pragmatic defender’s mindset and a knack for making complex integrations more maintainable and observable.
8 years of coding experience
Github Skills (17)
geoip10
python10
azure-functions10
threat-intelligence10
aws-s310
jupyter-notebook10
data-analysis10
network-analysis9
data-engineering9
cybersecurity9
generated-code9
logging8
azure-sentinel8
boto8
json7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/Azure-Sentinel
May 2019 - Dec 2022
Cloud-native SIEM for intelligent security analytics for your entire enterprise.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:246 reviews, 390 commits, 156 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Ashwin's commits primarily focus on maintaining and improving an AWS S3 data connector within an Azure Function App. They've made changes to Python code within the `__init__.py` file to enhance data ingestion, processing, and sending of events to Azure Sentinel. The user demonstrated skills in debugging, integrating with AWS services, and implementing best practices in an Azure Functions environment.
cloud-nativesecuritycybersecurity
Azure/Azure-Sentinel-Notebooks
Oct 2019 - Dec 2022
Interactive Azure Sentinel Notebooks provides security insights and actions to investigate anomalies and hunt for malicious behaviors.
Role in this project:Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:16 reviews, 51 commits, 24 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Ashwin added a Jupyter Notebook file, "Entity Explorer - IP.ipynb", which suggests an intention to perform analysis related to IP addresses. The notebook includes sections for data exploration, GeoIP lookups, threat intelligence, and network connection analysis, implying a focus on security investigations. The structure of the notebook reveals a focus on using data analysis techniques and external resources (like GeoIP and threat intelligence feeds) to understand and assess the context of an IP address.
azure-sentinelsecurity
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