Bhavin Patel
Sr. Threat Research Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBhavin Patel is a Sr. Threat Research Engineer with seven years of hands-on experience blending incident response, threat research, and security software engineering at Splunk and NBCUniversal. He builds open-source detection tooling and detection content, contributes to high-profile projects like Atomic Red Team and Splunk Security Content, and focuses on cloud-native threats and analytics-driven detections. Skilled in network forensics, SIEM, malware investigations, and secure development, he translates noisy telemetry into actionable detections using Python and Splunk SPL. Known for meticulous analysis and practical countermeasures, he pairs deep investigative experience with contributions that enable reproducible, platform-agnostic testing (e.g., kubectl and AWS atomics). Based in San Francisco, he holds an MS in Information Assurance and enjoys the detective work of finding signals others miss.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Information Assurance, Master's degree, Information Assurance at Northeastern UniversityBachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Engineering, First class, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Engineering, First class at University of Mumbai
English, Hindi
Github Skills (10)
sh10
script10
bash10
shell10
python10
scripting10
yaml9
aws9
kubectl9
ruby7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
splunk/security_content
Feb 2019 - Jan 2023
Splunk Security Content
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:36 releases, 971 reviews, 2723 commits in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Bhavin's commits primarily focus on bug fixes and improvements to the `validate.py` and `generate.py` files, which are likely involved in the security content generation process. The changes involve adjustments to risk calculations and template rendering in the context of a cybersecurity repository. These changes also include updates to a file related to template rendering for saved searches, suggesting a focus on backend logic and content generation within a security context.
security-toolsdetectionsecuritycybersecuritysplunk
redcanaryco/atomic-red-team
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
Small and highly portable detection tests based on MITRE's ATT&CK.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:153 reviews, 107 commits, 131 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Bhavin contributed to the project by adding and modifying code related to shell scripts and configuration files, including integrating a kubectl executor for atomic tests. They also implemented changes to support AWS cloud atomics, including adding new platform names and updating relevant files. The user's work also involved merging branches and modifying ruby and shell scripts used in the testing framework.
mitremitre-attackportable
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