Brent Eskridge
Staff Threat Hunting Specialist
Oklahoma, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrent Eskridge is a Staff Threat Hunting Specialist and former university department chair with 11 years in industry and over 17 years of academic research and mentoring experience. He blends hands-on threat hunting across petabyte-scale DNS datasets with software craftsmanship in Python, PySpark, and data normalization algorithms, enabling rapid classification and discovery of large-scale indicators. Brent has led interdisciplinary teams, secured and managed over $380K in research funding, published 17 peer-reviewed papers, and translated complex technical findings into compelling intelligence and educational content for audiences from CXOs to students. His unusual cross-domain expertise spans AI/ML, autonomous agents, and animal behavior research—an uncommon lens he applies to pattern discovery and collective behavior in cyber threats. Based in Oklahoma, he is known for scaling analysis workflows that turned multiday team efforts into single-person weekly achievements while mentoring junior analysts and students to reach their potential.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics and Mathematics, Summa Cum Laude, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics and Mathematics, Summa Cum Laude at Southern Nazarene UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at University of Oklahoma
Github Skills (3)
tcm9
security6
linux6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
beskridge/beskridge.github.io
Jul 2021 - Jul 2022
Contributions:24 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
snucsne/CSNE-Course-Source-Code
Sep 2015 - Mar 2020
Contributions:33 pushes in 4 years 7 months
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