Joel Esler
Vice President Of Security, Research, And Intelligence at ThreatSTOP, Inc.
United States
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Top SchoolJoel Esler is a Principal Product Manager and security veteran with over two decades of experience turning telemetry into actionable protection for global organizations. He has built and led threat research teams and detection architectures at Netography, ThreatSTOP, and Cisco Talos, authoring hundreds of flow- and signature-based detections and multiple anti-malware engines. Joel combines deep hands-on engineering—writing detection software, automation pipelines, and ML/streaming detection strategies—with product and go-to-market leadership that improved detection accuracy and scaled customer value. He’s equally at home in open source communities, contributing to Snort, ClamAV, and other projects, and in public-facing roles as a podcaster and conference speaker. A former Army transmissions supervisor and town mayor, he brings operational discipline and fiscal stewardship to product strategy. Joel’s not-obvious edge is synthesizing diverse data sources (VirusTotal, URLScan, DNSDB, sanctions lists) into automated intelligence that materially reduces false positives and speeds response.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Rising SunSFCP, SFCP at SFCPAir Assault, Air Assault at United States Army Air Assault SchoolCertification Level 5 Instructor, Certification Level 5 Instructor at Vulnerability Assessment InstructorCertification Level 2, Certification Level 2 at Systems Administrator and Network Manager Security CourseCertification Level 2, Certification Level 2 at Vulnerability Assessment AnalystGIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst, GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst at SANSSFCE, SFCE at SFCECertification Forensic Analysis, Certification Forensic Analysis at Criminal Investigative Division, Computer Crimes Investigative Unit Computer Forensic CourseCombat, Combat at United States Army IETACIA, ACIA at ACIAMultichannel Transmissions Systems Operator, Multichannel Transmissions Systems Operator at United States Army Signal SchoolLevel 1, Level 1 at IASO CertificationSnortCP, SnortCP at SnortCPPLDC Leadership, PLDC Leadership at United States Army Primary Leadership Development Course
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Github Skills (93)
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antivirus10
clamav10
rule10
reserved10
observable9
netflow9
certificate-transparency9
suricata9
structures9
python9
cortex9
cyber-threat-intelligence9
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Cisco-Talos/snort-faq
Jun 2013 - Mar 2021
Snort FAQ
Contributions:98 commits, 2 PRs, 34 pushes in 7 years 10 months
snort
Cisco-Talos/clamav-faq
Jan 2015 - May 2021
ClamAV FAQ
Contributions:2 reviews, 53 PRs, 91 pushes in 6 years 4 months
clamav
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