Ishmael Guarin
Senior Security Engineer at Arctic Wolf
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolIshmael Guarin is a Senior Security Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience in threat hunting, incident response, and detection use-case development across SIEM, XDR, EDR, and ELK platforms. Currently at Arctic Wolf, he combines deep practical expertise with scripting in Python and Bash to operationalize Sigma, YARA, and custom detection logic. A Seneca Polytechnic B.Tech. cybersecurity graduate, Ishmael progressed from junior analyst roles to Tier II and senior engineering positions, demonstrating strong investigative discipline grounded in MITRE and SANS frameworks. He’s a competition-proven practitioner—semi-finalist in the 2022 International Cyber League and 1st place in the 2018 C3X—which underscores a knack for adversary simulation and creative problem solving. Based in Old Toronto, he brings a balanced mix of blue-team operational rigor and proactive detection engineering that reduces dwell time and improves measurable security outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Cybersecurity, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Cybersecurity at Seneca Polytechnic
EnglishGithub contributions (5)
iguarin/plex_docker
Apr 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
iguarin/firewall_scripts
Jan 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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