Damian Pfister
Founder & Security Architect at DHD Information Security
Steve Tshwete Local Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolDamian Pfister is a cybersecurity architect and founder with over two decades of hands-on experience translating enterprise-grade security practices into practical, right-sized solutions for SMBs. Formerly a Principal Designated Support Engineer at Elastic, he helped global financial institutions like Citi and Vanguard scale detection, observability and telemetry pipelines using platforms such as Elastic and Wazuh. He now leads DHD Information Security, focusing on measurable security architecture, cost‑optimised stacks, and detection engineering that emphasise operational clarity over tool sprawl. Creator of the open Gatekeeper framework, Damian specialises in making security structured, scalable and auditable for teams that lack large security operations budgets. Based in Mpumalanga, South Africa, he combines deep Unix/Linux and SIEM experience with a pragmatic engineering mindset informed by both field service roots and enterprise escalation work.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Pretoria TechnikonMatriculation / Grade 12, Matriculation / Grade 12 at Steelcrest Highschool
English, Afrikaans
Github Skills (36)
search-engine10
opensearch10
observability10
transport10
kibana10
java10
restful10
logstash10
elasticsearch10
logging10
elastic10
visualizations10
jruby10
streaming10
filebeat9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/kibana
Nov 2015 - Jun 2024
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Contributions:1 branch, 6 comments, 2 issues in 8 years 8 months
elasticdashboardskibanaobservabilitywindow
elastic/support-diagnostics
Mar 2016 - May 2021
Support diagnostics utility for elasticsearch and logstash
Contributions:3 comments, 5 issues in 5 years 3 months
diagnosticslogstashelasticsearch
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