Iwan Timmer
SOC Detection Engineer at Tesorion
Utrecht, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolIwan Timmer is a SOC Detection Engineer based in Utrecht with 12 years of hands-on experience building and tuning detection pipelines, automation, and monitoring for enterprise security operations. He specializes in creating Microsoft Sentinel use cases and KQL detection rules, automating deployments with Terraform, and integrating playbooks into XSOAR while maintaining SOC infrastructure with Ansible and Zabbix. His background spans analyst-to-engineer roles at Northwave and a secondment to the Dutch Ministry of Defence, giving him deep operational insight into threat detection, incident playbooks, and customer-facing monitoring. A computer science MSc from the University of Twente, he also contributes to open-source projects—most notably fixes and optimizations to Moonlight’s GameStream core—demonstrating a practical systems mindset that spans networking, streaming performance, and security tooling. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex detections into reproducible, automated deployments that scale across clients.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MSc, Computer Science, Master of Science - MSc, Computer Science at University of Twente
Github Skills (8)
c1710
nvidia10
video-streaming10
c-library10
c1110
multithreading10
networking10
audio-streaming9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
moonlight-stream/moonlight-common-c
May 2015 - Jun 2017
Core implementation of Nvidia's GameStream protocol
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 12 PRs, 8 comments in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Iwan primarily contributed to the core implementation of the Nvidia's GameStream protocol within the moonlight-common-c repository. Their work involved addressing critical issues in video and audio streaming, fixing bugs like the skipping of video packets, and introducing capabilities for combining receive and decode threads. They also implemented optimizations such as SDP optimizations for remote connections and the addition of Forward Error Correction (FEC) mechanisms. These changes reflect improvements in video and audio handling.
gamestreamnvidiamoonlightc-libraryc
irtimmer/mmdelta
Apr 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:32 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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