Bill Easton
Director Of Product Management at Elastic
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBill Easton is a Director of Product Management with a decade of experience building and shipping large-scale security and data-ingest products, currently leading vision and roadmaps for Logstash, Beats, and Elastic Agent at Elastic. He blends hands-on engineering (notably contributions improving Windows behavior and Kafka/Logstash outputs in the widely used elastic/beats project) with executive product leadership across cloud, endpoint, and infrastructure security domains. Previously he drove a silicon-to-cloud endpoint security program at Amazon and served as a hands-on CTO building vendor-agnostic cybersecurity platforms for critical infrastructure. Bill is skilled at translating community and customer feedback into product strategy, and he pairs deep technical fluency with operational experience managing petabyte-scale telemetry and billions of daily security events. Based in Madison, Wisconsin, he brings practical expertise across endpoint management, SIEM, and compliance tooling that few product leaders maintain alongside active open-source contributions.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
English, Spanish
Github Skills (8)
go10
ws-api10
winapi10
wp-api10
filebeat9
kafka9
metricbeat9
logstash9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/beats
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
:tropical_fish: Beats - Lightweight shippers for Elasticsearch & Logstash
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 reviews, 2 commits, 34 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Bill primarily contributed to the `elastic/beats` repository by addressing Windows-specific issues and improving the performance and functionality of the Beats framework. Their work included updating vendor packages, specifically related to Windows system information, memory management, and system calls. They also implemented features and metrics related to Javascript processing, Kafka output, and Logstash async output latency measurement. This demonstrates a focus on improving the overall efficiency and capabilities of the data shipping and processing pipeline within the Beats ecosystem.
tropicalheartbeatlogstashbeatsfilebeat
strawgate/C3-Platform-Kickstart
Apr 2016 - Jun 2022
Contributions:1 release, 35 commits, 33 pushes in 6 years 2 months
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