Summary
Fred House is a cybersecurity leader and software engineer with 25 years in technology and over a decade focused on detection engineering and incident response. He currently leads Detection Engineering & Innovation for Trellix Endpoint and XDR products, shaping global detection strategy and scaling detection engineering across EDR, EPP, XDR, SIEM, email, network, and sandbox domains. His career blends hands-on CNO, DFIR, and red/blue team experience with a software background in Python, C/C++, and Java, enabling R&D investments that produce practical, deployable defenses across millions of endpoints. Fred has driven MITRE ATT&CK evaluation programs and cross-team purple exercises since 2019, closing real product gaps through coordinated engineering and research. Fluent in Spanish and French, he brings an operational mindset from government and enterprise engagements to product research, often translating incident response techniques directly into high-impact detection features. Based in New York and educated in computer engineering at Virginia Tech, he’s known for turning practitioner insight into scalable product innovations.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Engineering w/ Computer Science Minor, BS Computer Engineering w/ Computer Science Minor at Virginia Tech