Jason Ertel
Vice President Of Software Engineering at Security Onion Solutions, LLC
Cincinnati Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Ertel is a veteran software leader and Vice President of Software Engineering with over 25 years of professional experience and a decade in leadership roles, currently shaping platform and security-focused engineering at Security Onion Solutions from the Cincinnati area. He blends hands-on DevOps and back-end expertise—contributing to notable open-source projects like Security Onion and ElastAlert2—with strategic delivery experience from roles as Director of Engineering at STACK and long-term consulting engagements for large-scale initiatives including EMV terminal rollouts and the 2010 U.S. Census. Known for pragmatic modernization work, he has replaced identity systems, hardened infrastructure configurations, and migrated legacy libraries to maintained alternatives to keep projects secure and maintainable. Comfortable operating at the intersection of architecture, operations, and compliance, he brings a proven track record of turning complex, regulated requirements into reliable, production-grade systems.
10 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering at University of Central Florida
Github Skills (22)
python10
security-txt10
amazon-elasticsearch10
configuration-management10
elasticsearchquery10
aws-elasticsearch10
elasticsearch10
nginx10
devops10
security-scan10
elasticsearch-api10
opensearch9
security9
yaml9
network-security9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
jertel/elastalert2
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
ElastAlert 2 is a continuation of the original yelp/elastalert project. Pull requests are appreciated!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:35 releases, 454 reviews, 659 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Jason made several contributions, primarily switching the project's library from the abandoned "blist" library to "sortedcontainers" and updating the dependencies of the setup.py file. They also merged branches, including those related to migrating a codebase to Pylint 2.7/2.8 and Tox3214 to 3220 and adding documentation for Slack integration. Furthermore, they added the "es_bearer" parameter and added related documentation.
elastalertcontinuationpull-requestsyelpelasticsearch
Security-Onion-Solutions/securityonion
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
Security Onion is a free and open platform for threat hunting, enterprise security monitoring, and log management. It includes our own interfaces for alerting, dashboards, hunting, PCAP, detections, and case management. It also includes other tools such as osquery, CyberChef, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Suricata, and Zeek.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:5 releases, 585 reviews, 1131 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Jason's contributions primarily revolved around infrastructure and configuration management within the Security Onion platform. They focused on improvements to the authentication system, including replacing the existing system with a new identity management system, and making related updates to the nginx configuration. Additionally, they increased the HTTP request size limit to support large PCAP files from sensors. The user also made adjustments to cron jobs to prevent log leakage and improved cookie handling, while also contributing to system-level configurations.
case-managementkibanalogstashopen-platformzeek
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