Brent Murphy
Senior Software Engineer at Fatsoma
North Devon, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarBrent Murphy is a Senior Software Engineer based in North Devon, England, with six years of professional experience building reliable software at Fatsoma. He combines hands-on engineering with a focus on security, evidenced by contributions to Elastic's detection-rules repository where he refined threat detection rules and added Microsoft 365 Exchange rules. Comfortable working across codebases, he has improved tests, dependencies, and formatting to keep security tooling maintainable and up to date. Brent's background demonstrates an attention to operational detail and pragmatic problem solving in production systems. Colleagues describe him as a dependable engineer who bridges feature delivery and security hygiene. He brings a practical, security-minded perspective to software development that reduces risk while keeping teams moving.
6 years of coding experience
Github Skills (11)
threat-hunting10
intrusion-detection10
malware-detection10
toml10
python9
kql8
aws-elasticsearch7
amazon-elasticsearch7
elasticsearch-api7
elasticsearch7
elasticsearchquery7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/detection-rules
Jul 2020 - Jun 2021
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:829 reviews, 102 commits, 191 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Brent contributed to the Elastic detection rules repository, focusing on refining and updating existing threat detection rules. Their work included modifying rule tags, updating file paths and dependencies, adjusting tests, and correcting formatting. They also added new rules for Microsoft 365 Exchange and updated existing rules to reflect changes in Elastic's endpoint security offerings.
security-toolselasticsecurityengine-detectionrules
bm11100/detection-rules
Jul 2020 - Aug 2021
Rules for Elastic Security's detection engine
Contributions:392 pushes, 170 branches in 1 year 1 month
security-toolsdetectionelasticsecurityengine-detection
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