Ben Magee
Senior Threat Hunter Researcher
Greater Leeds Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Magee is a Senior Threat Hunter and researcher with 11 years of hands-on experience blending security operations, incident response and threat hunting across public sector and consultancy environments. He has led NHS England’s CSOC threat hunting team and now drives advanced threat research at Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, bringing proven expertise in hunting at scale and managing specialist incident response. His background in security engineering and practical software skills (including contributing NUnit test coverage to the popular Jellyfin open-source media server) give him a rare ability to bridge deep detection engineering with developer-focused tooling. Comfortable operating across large datasets, IDS/SIEM ecosystems and cloud/infrastructure stacks, he combines analytical rigor with clear operational leadership and a history of building repeatable, auditable detection capabilities.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Computer Forensics & Security, BSc (Hons) Computer Forensics & Security at Leeds Beckett UniversityAll Saints Catholic High School
Stackoverflow
688reputation
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7answers
31questions
Github Skills (18)
unit-testing10
net10
nunit10
dotnet-new10
dotnet10
asp-net10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
test-automation10
nginx6
nodejs6
php6
pipe6
websocket6
typescript6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
jellyfin/jellyfin
Dec 2018 - Jan 2020
The Free Software Media System - Server Backend & API
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:43 commits, 11 PRs, 87 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Ben's contributions primarily involve the creation and maintenance of unit tests. They wrote tests for multiple components of the Jellyfin project, including tests for BDInfo, DvdLib, Jellyfin.Dlna, Jellyfin.Drawing, Jellyfin.Naming, Jellyfin.Notifications, Jellyfin.Photos, Jellyfin.Server.Implementations, Jellyfin.XmlTv, IsoMounter, Jellyfin.Api, Jellyfin.Common, Jellyfin.Controller, Jellyfin.LocalMetadata, Jellyfin.Model, Jellyfin.Providers, Jellyfin.WebDashboard, Jellyfin.XbmcMetadata and Jellyfin.Test. The tests appear to be written in C# using NUnit. The user also added project references to the test projects.
backendjellyfincsharpdotnet
TeenageHelpline/Progress
Sep 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:10 PRs, 56 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 2 months
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