Maarten Van Dantzig
Senior Security Engineer - Digital Forensics & Incident Management at Google
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolMaarten Van Dantzig is a Senior Security Engineer based in Zurich with five years focused on digital forensics, incident management and threat intelligence at Google and prior leadership roles at Fox-IT. He leads large-scale incident response and DFIR tooling efforts, spending dedicated time collaborating with Google's Threat Analysis Group to track threat actors and translate findings into protections at scale. Maarten combines hands-on backend contributions to high-profile open-source forensic tooling (notably enhancements to Google's Timesketch) with operational experience running cross-disciplinary investigative tracks in log, network and host forensics. His background spans SOC management, threat intelligence leadership and technical incident handling, giving him a rare blend of people leadership and deep technical skill. Colleagues rely on him for turning complex adversary tradecraft into precise, actionable forensic workflows and scalable detection capabilities.
5 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht (Hogeschool Utrecht)
Github Skills (8)
regular-expression10
analyse10
computer-forensics10
python10
data-analysis9
security9
time-line8
django4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
google/timesketch
Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
Collaborative forensic timeline analysis
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:47 reviews, 22 commits, 37 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Maarten primarily contributed to the backend logic and functionality of the Timesketch project. Their work included adding features like optional keyword rdomain to the SSH sessionizer, developing new IP address related feature extractors, and fixing bugs in the tagger analyzer. Additionally, the user was involved in addressing issues related to file format validation and fixing code-related issues within the Timesketch backend components. The user's contributions focused on enhancing the data analysis and forensic capabilities of the system.
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itsmvd/timesketch
Oct 2020 - Apr 2025
Collaborative forensic timeline analysis
Contributions:2 PRs, 172 pushes, 15 branches in 4 years 6 months
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