Jim Bycroft
Lead Solutions Designer at SIEMonster
Australia
Summary
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SeniorJim Bycroft is a seasoned security technologist and product-focused CTO with over two decades in the security industry and a decade of focused experience building enterprise SIEM solutions. As Chief Technical Officer and Lead Solutions Designer at SIEMonster, he architects open-source, license-free SIEM platforms that enable MSSPs and security teams to detect incidents and operate SOC services more affordably. He began his career in senior networking and pentesting roles, bringing deep hands-on offensive security expertise to product design and threat detection engineering. Jim’s work blends practical penetration testing rigor with scalable product thinking, helping customers who once balked at commercial SIEM costs adopt a transparent, community-driven alternative. Based in Australia, he leads development of an enterprise-grade SIEM used globally and keeps the product grounded in real-world adversary tactics rather than vendor-driven feature bloat.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (33)
mitre-attack9
opencti9
cybersecurity9
threat-intelligence9
connectors9
web-application6
rest5
api5
analyzer5
dashboard4
vagrantfile4
yaml4
cortex4
elasticsearch3
kibana3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
siemonster/misc
Feb 2017 - Oct 2021
Contributions:94 commits, 90 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
siemonster/project-free
Oct 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:51 commits, 31 pushes, 5 branches in 9 months
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