Benjamin Mcnichols
Principal Software Engineer II at Elastic
Columbia, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Mcnichols is a seasoned software engineer with over two decades of experience and five years at senior principal levels, currently building product at a stealth startup after a six-year tenure as Principal Software Engineer II at Elastic. He brings deep expertise in security and endpoint software from roles at Nuix, FireEye, and long-term DoD engagements, consistently operating at the intersection of secure systems and scalable engineering. Comfortable leading both technical teams and hands-on development, he has a track record of delivering production-grade agents and security products for enterprise customers. Based in Columbia, Maryland, Benjamin blends government and commercial experience, which gives him a pragmatic approach to compliance-driven engineering and threat-aware design. His career arc suggests strong system-level thinking and the ability to transition from research/defense contexts into fast-moving startup environments.
5 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (25)
observability10
metricbeat10
heartbeat10
filebeat10
kibana10
packetbeat10
logstash10
elasticsearch10
endpoint10
elastic10
visualizations10
monitoring9
security9
agent9
logging9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
bjmcnic/integrations
Aug 2024 - Sep 2024
Elastic Integrations
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 26 days
bjmcnic/elastic-agent
Feb 2024 - Feb 2024
Elastic Agent - single, unified way to add monitoring for logs, metrics, and other types of data to a host.
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 18 days
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