Derek Ditch
Staff Security Engineer, Cloud Threat Analysis
Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Ditch is a Staff Security Engineer specializing in cloud threat analysis with 14 years of experience blending theoretical computer science, incident response, and threat intelligence. He leads high-performing teams—both at Google and in the Missouri Army National Guard—building automated, scalable analytics and network collection platforms that have outperformed commercial vendors and saved significant costs. Derek is skilled in reverse engineering, protocol exploitation, and systems integration, and he brings a practitioner’s perspective from hands-on incident response to inform proactive threat hunting. He contributes to open-source tooling and operational automation, including deployment work on Google's widely used Stenographer packet-capture project. Based in Texas, he focuses on remote or local roles and is driven to shift the defensive advantage back to defenders through practical, data-driven improvements.
14 years of coding experience
Master of Science (MS), Master of Science (MS) at Missouri University of Science and TechnologyBS, BS at University of Missouri-Rolla
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Github Skills (19)
centos10
bash10
automation10
systemd10
automations10
infrastructure9
go8
apache-kafka6
uuid6
logstash6
helm6
configmap6
sparse-file6
python6
libvirt6
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
google/stenographer
Aug 2015 - Aug 2017
Stenographer is a packet capture solution which aims to quickly spool all packets to disk, then provide simple, fast access to subsets of those packets. Discussion/announcements at stenographer@googlegroups.com
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:12 commits, 7 PRs, 19 comments in 2 years
Contributions summary:Derek primarily contributed to the project by developing and modifying the installation scripts for Stenographer on CentOS 7.1. Their work involved setting up the necessary system configurations, installing dependencies like Golang and jq, and building the stenographer and stenotype binaries. Additionally, they integrated and configured systemd services for managing the application, demonstrating a focus on automation and deployment aspects.
announcementspacketsdiskpacket-capturepacket
elastic/malware-exquacker
Apr 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:42 commits, 4 pushes in 6 months
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