Joshua Preston
Automation Executive
Ohio, United States
Summary
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SeniorJoshua Preston is an Automation Executive with 11 years of experience focused on cloud security, behavioral analytics, and large-scale data platforms. Based in Ohio and currently at Red Hat after contributing to Lacework’s patented Polygraph engine, he specializes in automating ingestion, correlation, and threat-contextualization across complex cloud environments. He brings a pragmatic blend of product and engineering leadership that turns massive security telemetry into actionable, low-noise alerts and future-proof use cases. An open-source enthusiast with a taste for embedded automation, he pairs hands-on technical fluency with executive-level strategy. Notably, his work centers on making visibility a solvable data problem—scaling real-time analysis to retain months of correlated cloud behavior while surfacing only the most meaningful security signals.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (103)
python10
firewall10
automation10
ssh10
ansible10
bus10
firewall-rules10
nftables10
iptables10
daemon10
devops10
commons9
network-configuration9
puppet9
django9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mrjoshuap/idm-quickstart
Oct 2015 - Dec 2018
Contributions:86 commits, 36 pushes in 3 years 2 months
securityidentity-managementred-hathatidentity
mrjoshuap/mrjoshuap.github.io
Oct 2016 - Jan 2019
Contributions:121 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 3 months
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