Christopher Owens
Vice President Of Engineering, Security Solution at Elastic
Alexandria, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Owens is a seasoned security engineering leader with over two decades of experience and eight years in senior engineering management roles, now serving as Vice President of Engineering, Security Solution at Elastic. He has progressed through technical and leadership positions across the Department of Defense, Endgame, and multiple senior roles at Elastic, combining deep hands-on software engineering with strategic program and product leadership. His background in computer systems engineering and an MS in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins underpins a focus on endpoint security, integrations, and scalable security platforms. Christopher is known for bridging mission-driven defense engineering practices with commercial security product development, delivering hardened, operationally aware systems. He brings a pragmatic blend of technical depth, cross-functional team building, and risk-conscious decision-making that accelerates secure product delivery. Based in Alexandria, Virginia, he pairs public-sector discipline with cloud-native security innovation.
8 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Systems Engineering at Boston University College of Engineering
Github Skills (19)
observability10
kibana10
logstash10
elasticsearch10
elastic10
visualizations10
filebeat9
heartbeat9
packetbeat8
metricbeat8
endpoint6
agent4
logging4
monitoring3
grafana3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
crowens/RTA
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
elastic/kibana
Feb 2020 - Oct 2023
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Contributions:1 branch, 8 comments, 2 issues in 3 years 9 months
elasticdashboardskibanaobservabilitywindow
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