Asuka Nakajima
Senior Security Research Engineer, Endpoint Protections Team at Elastic
Tokyo, Japan
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Top SchoolAsuka Nakajima is a Senior Security Research Engineer at Elastic with over a decade of hands-on experience in endpoint and software security, reverse engineering, and vulnerability research. Based in Tokyo, she combines applied R&D—rooted in a long tenure at NTT and a research visit to CMU’s CyLab—with practical product-focused work on endpoint protections. A frequent international speaker and peer reviewer for Black Hat and CODE BLUE, she also founded CTF for GIRLS, Japan’s first info‑sec community for women, demonstrating a commitment to diversity and talent development in the field. Her work bridges academic-style investigations (code-clone vulnerability detection, patch-diffing studies, IoT vulnerability research) and real-world defensive product engineering, and she’s an author of two widely read security books. Recognized by Forbes JAPAN and multiple national awards, she brings a rare mix of research rigor, public engagement, and product impact.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Information, Bachelor’s Degree, Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Information at Keio University
Japanese, English
Github Skills (8)
elasticsearch10
elastic-common-schema10
elastic10
observability10
visualizations10
common-schema10
kibana10
endpoint9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
AsuNa-jp/semantic-conventions
Sep 2024 - Jan 2025
Defines standards for generating consistent, accessible telemetry across a variety of domains
Contributions:64 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
AsuNa-jp/ecs
Sep 2024 - Feb 2025
Elastic Common Schema
Contributions:40 pushes, 4 branches in 4 months
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