Guy Helmer
Distinguished Engineer at Absolute Software
Ames, Iowa, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGuy Helmer is a Distinguished Engineer with 28 years of experience leading architecture and implementation of cross-platform network monitoring and data-loss-prevention for SaaS environments. He combines deep systems expertise—Windows and Mac kernel drivers, networking stacks, filesystems, packet capture, and high-performance pattern matching—with cloud-native service development in Java and Python deployed on Kubernetes. As a former CTO and long-time FreeBSD committer, he bridges product leadership, open-source stewardship, and hands-on system programming. He also teaches enterprise cybersecurity and advanced programming at Iowa State, translating research in distributed intrusion detection and agent-based machine learning into practical defenses. Colleagues know him for pragmatic designs that scale from kernel drivers to analytics pipelines and for advising startups and VCs on technical due diligence.
27 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at Iowa State UniversityB.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at South Dakota Mines
Github Skills (27)
src10
jail10
unix10
freebsd10
history10
linux10
openbsd10
bsd10
evolution10
version-control10
shell10
xen10
netbsd10
nim-language10
philosophy10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ghelmer/file
Jun 2015 - Jan 2019
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
ghelmer/TeamEval
Jan 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:34 pushes in 2 years 4 months
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