Elizabeth Schweinsberg
Sr Technical Advisor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolElizabeth Schweinsberg is a senior technical advisor and seasoned cyber security engineer with 13 years of experience leading incident response, digital forensics, and Zero Trust transformations across government and tech giants. She has guided teams at Facebook and Google on intrusion detection and malware response, and now leads Zero Trust initiatives at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. A former Digital Forensic Analyst for the DoD and active volunteer organizer for DFRWS, she blends deep technical forensic expertise with policy and program-level leadership. Elizabeth also contributes to open-source forensic tooling—improving Windows registry parsers and test automation for the widely used plaso timeline project—demonstrating hands-on engineering alongside strategic stewardship. Based in California, she serves on WPI’s Board of Trustees and mentors STEM students, reflecting a commitment to community and pipeline development in security.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteMS Information Security Technology and Management, MS Information Security Technology and Management at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (6)
unit-testing10
time-line10
text-parsing10
parsing10
computer-forensics10
python10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
log2timeline/plaso
Mar 2013 - Dec 2014
Super timeline all the things
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:47 commits, 1 comment, 3 issues in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Elizabeth contributed to the `log2timeline/plaso` repository by adding and modifying registry parsing plugins, specifically focusing on Windows registry keys related to Run and RunOnce entries, as well as less frequently used keys and services. Their work involved implementing new parsers and enhancing existing ones to extract and format relevant data from these registry keys. The user's commits also included tests to validate the functionality of the plugins. Their contributions are centered around improving the capabilities of the forensic timeline tool by extracting and presenting critical Windows registry data.
all-the-thingstimelineforensicsparsing
dfrws/dfrws2006-challenge
Aug 2021 - May 2022
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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