Darren Cathey
Tasting Room Associate
Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDarren Cathey is a seasoned security-focused solutions architect and sales engineer with a 40-year professional background and eight years concentrated in threat intelligence, detection, and response. He has helped organizations adopt SIEM, identity, and data-protection platforms across Elastic, Exabeam, SailPoint, LogRhythm, Varonis and others, translating complex security analytics into actionable outcomes for customers. Skilled at pre- and post-sales technical strategy, Darren blends deep embedded-systems and software engineering roots with pragmatic sales and product marketing experience to close technically sophisticated deals. Now based in Minnesota and recently trading the road for hospitality, he serves guests at Sunset Hills and 50W wineries while maintaining a hands-on interest in AI-driven security analytics. Colleagues rely on him for clear, outcome-oriented guidance that bridges engineering detail and business risk. Unusually, his career spans both low-level embedded systems and modern cloud-native security platforms, giving him a rare end-to-end perspective on protecting software and data.
8 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. in Computer Science, B.S. in Computer Science at Virginia Tech
Github Skills (24)
search-engine10
opensearch10
observability10
kibana10
java10
restful10
elasticsearch10
elastic10
visualizations10
cortex6
analyzer6
observable5
security5
python5
json5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
stiltz/random
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
stiltz/kibana
Jan 2024 - Oct 2024
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Contributions:8 pushes, 2 branches in 9 months
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