John Tuckner
Founder at Annex Security
Kansas City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Tuckner is a product and security leader with 11 years of experience building teams and products that reduce risk from software and infrastructure threats. As founder of Annex Security (acquired by Socket) and now Product Lead - Extensions at Socket, he specializes in protecting organizations from malicious browser and editor extensions through deep code and metadata analysis. He combines hands-on engineering—contributing backend improvements to the prominent Sigma rule repository for Azure Log Analytics—with product strategy and GTM experience that scaled services and automation programs to multimillion-dollar impact. At Tines he created Tines Labs, grew a public library of automation templates from 200 to 900+, and led rapid AI-enabled workflow tooling development, showing a knack for turning research into production features quickly. Based in the Kansas City area, he blends technical depth in security engineering with practical product leadership and a track record of shipping defensible, customer-focused solutions.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of Kansas
Github Skills (10)
python10
azure-log-analytics10
sia9
logging9
elasticsearchquery8
elasticsearch8
elasticsearch-api8
amazon-elasticsearch8
security8
aws-elasticsearch8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
SigmaHQ/sigma
Mar 2019 - May 2019
Main Sigma Rule Repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 12 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:John's commits primarily focus on enhancing the Azure Log Analytics backend functionality within the Sigma rule repository. They implemented and refined logic related to process creation event handling, specifically tailoring the backend for Sysmon and security event parsing. Key changes involved mapping and transforming data for compatibility with Azure Log Analytics, along with modifications to how event IDs and table selections are processed. This work demonstrates a strong understanding of the backend code and the specific requirements for Sigma rule processing.
signaturessysmonrulesecurityids
tines/go-tines
Nov 2020 - Nov 2024
Go client for the Tines API
Contributions:12 releases, 23 PRs, 64 pushes in 3 years 11 months
golangapiapi-clientgo-client
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