Larry Gregory
Team Lead, Kibana Security at Elastic
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLarry Gregory is a seasoned software leader with 11 years of experience, currently heading Kibana Security engineering at Elastic where he drives technical strategy, team execution, and platform reliability. A full‑stack developer by trade, he focuses on backend security and authorization, contributing notable open-source work to elastic/kibana and elastic/elasticsearch—improving audit logging, trimming legacy roles, and hardening cluster privileges for features like ILM and ML. He blends hands‑on engineering with people leadership, having progressed from principal engineer to team lead while mentoring teams and shaping cross‑functional delivery. Based in New York, he pairs an M.S. in Computer Science with a pragmatic approach to shipping secure, scalable systems and brings a longtime interest in home automation that underscores a practical curiosity for integrating software with the physical world.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Computer Science, M.S., Computer Science at The College of Saint RoseBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Siena University
Github Skills (26)
rbac10
authorizations10
amazon-elasticsearch10
it-security10
configuration-management10
user-authentication10
authentication10
kibana10
java10
security10
javas10
elasticsearchquery10
aws-elasticsearch10
audit-logging10
authorization10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/kibana
Apr 2018 - Oct 2022
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Role in this project:
Backend & Security Engineer
Backend & Security EngineerContributions:1250 reviews, 652 commits, 1964 PRs in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Larry primarily focused on security-related backend tasks within the Kibana repository. Their work involved removing legacy audit loggers, which included code modifications to the security configuration files. Additionally, the user addressed and fixed flaky tests related to user activation and deactivation, demonstrating their involvement in ensuring the reliability of the security features. They also added support for filtering audit log events by user, enhancing the auditing capabilities of the system.
elasticdashboardskibanaobservabilitywindow
elastic/elasticsearch
Jan 2020 - Jul 2020
Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:20 reviews, 13 commits, 24 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Larry's contributions primarily involve modifying the security-related code within the Elasticsearch project. Their work includes adding and modifying cluster privileges, specifically for Kibana roles, related to features like ILM and machine learning. They are also involved in deprecating old roles and introducing new ones, demonstrating involvement in role management and user authentication and authorization. The commits indicate a focus on improving the security posture of the Elasticsearch platform.
restfulsearch-engineopensearchelasticsearchjava
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