Josh Rickard
Threat Research Engineer
United States
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Top SchoolJosh Rickard is a detection engineer and software-focused security practitioner with 10+ years building event-driven pipelines and Golang/Python microservices that process billions of events and scale to tens of thousands of queries per second. He blends hands-on engineering, product management, and team leadership—having managed products reaching over 10M installs and led detection and phishing-defense efforts at companies like AppOmni and Sublime Security. His background in systems administration and Active Directory/Group Policy automation informs practical defenses, incident response, and vulnerability programs, backed by GCWN and GCFA certifications. Josh routinely builds automation and internal tooling (and documents it) to make security operations repeatable and scalable, and maintains a blog focused on automation and defensive engineering. An operator at heart, he has moved between analyst, architect, and engineering roles, carrying a socio-technical lens to solve real-world security problems.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Information Systems, Bachelor of Science, Computer Information Systems at Columbia College
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Github Skills (24)
atomics9
mitre-attack9
powershell-module8
markdown8
rdap7
whois7
giphy7
phishing6
coredata6
ruby-on-rails6
jquery6
cocoa6
ruby6
ajax6
javascript6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
MSAdministrator/PoshCodeMarkDown
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
Remember poshcode? Well, I converted all the code to Markdown. Enjoy!
Contributions:4 commits in 1 day
markdown
MSAdministrator/TemplatePowerShellModule
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
A Template PowerShell Module
Contributions:6 commits in 2 days
powershell-module
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