Rob Macgregor
Senior Threat Hunter
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarRob Macgregor is a Senior Threat Hunter based in Edinburgh with over 20 years in cybersecurity and 11 years in focused threat detection and hunting. He has led global detection research at PwC, built and scaled network hunting services, and now runs the threat hunting program and security tooling improvements at City Electrical Factors. A former UNIX sysadmin and long-time intrusion detection and vulnerabilities researcher for UK government agencies, he blends deep operational experience with automation and training to make detection both consistent and scalable. He contributes to open-source documentation (notably Home Assistant) and prefers practical improvements that help teams onboard faster and produce repeatable outputs. Rob is known for translating complex adversary tradecraft into actionable detection content and for mentoring others to raise organisational cyber maturity.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (4)
home-assistant10
documentation10
jekyll10
html8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
home-assistant/home-assistant.io
Sep 2017 - Aug 2022
:blue_book: Home Assistant User documentation
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:1 review, 666 commits, 578 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:Rob primarily contributed to the documentation of the Home Assistant project. Their work involved updating and adding links within the documentation's navigation structure, specifically focusing on the Z-Wave integration and Lovelace UI. They also added a note about Hass.io add-ons and corrected a typo. The contributions aim to improve the user experience by clarifying installation and usage of various features.
blueuser-documentationassistanthacshome-automation
DubhAd/Home-AssistantConfig
Sep 2017 - Jan 2025
My Home Assistant configuration files
Contributions:2426 pushes, 12 branches in 7 years 5 months
smlhome-assistant-configassistanthome-assistant-configurationgoogle-home
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