Daniel Stepanic
Principal Security Research Engineer I at Elastic
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Stepanic is a Principal Security Research Engineer at Elastic with six years of focused experience in threat research and security operations. He progressed from SOC analyst and data security roles at Citi to hands-on threat hunting at Endgame before joining Elastic, where he now leads advanced malware research (Github bio: "Malwarez at @elastic"). Daniel blends practical incident response experience with deep research into adversary tradecraft, surfacing detection strategies that scale across enterprise environments. His background in Business Information Systems informs a pragmatic approach to securing complex organizations, pairing technical rigor with an eye for operational impact. Colleagues describe him as a researcher who turns obscure malware behaviors into actionable defenses.
6 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BBA, Business Information Systems, BBA, Business Information Systems at Texas Christian University - M.J. Neeley School of Business
Github Skills (8)
elastic10
threat-hunting10
security10
endpoint9
elastic-common-schema8
common-schema8
get-started7
elasticsearch6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dstepanic/slides
Oct 2023 - Oct 2024
Contributions:1 push in 1 year
dstepanic/capa-rules
Apr 2024 - Apr 2024
Standard collection of rules for capa: the tool for enumerating the capabilities of programs
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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