Mark Mager
Senior Manager, Security Research at Elastic
Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Mager is a senior security research leader with over a decade of experience designing endpoint prevention, detection, and visibility capabilities and seven years in leadership roles at Elastic. He leads a fully remote, globally distributed R&D team that builds advanced features for the Elastic Defend XDR platform, translating applied research into product roadmaps and release-driven development. Mark combines deep reverse-engineering and malware analysis roots with hands-on engineering and product stewardship, having driven threat research and protections engineering across startups and defense contractors. Based in Virginia, he’s known for blending technical vision with practical delivery—guiding senior leadership on strategy while still contributing to the low-level analysis that informs detection rules and defenses.
7 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Github Skills (13)
elasticsearch10
endpoint10
observability10
elastic10
visualizations10
kibana10
security10
security-hardening9
documentation8
exploit7
camera5
hacking4
iot3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
magermark/kibana
Oct 2023 - Oct 2023
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
elastic/dcart
Dec 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:8 commits, 1 push in 8 days
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