Robert Stucke
Senior Manager, Security Engineering at Confluent
Denver Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolRobert Stucke is a security engineering leader with decades of hands-on experience, now serving as Senior Manager, Security Engineering at Confluent after leadership roles at Google, LinkedIn, and Confluent as a staff engineer. He specializes in DNS abuse research, sinkholing, C2 reverse engineering, and finding overlooked threats like abandoned botnets and resolver misconfigurations by mining large DNS datasets. Robert designs lightweight, purpose-built network and endpoint sensors and has built engines to supplant traditional SIEMs with contextual extraction, relational risk scoring, and behavior-based indicators. He favors fringe, high-leverage research over hype-driven areas, turning curiosity about “what if” scenarios into practical defenses and detection tools. With a recent MS in Cybersecurity from Georgia Tech and a history of custom security tooling across finance, hospitality, and telecom, he pairs deep technical craft with operational impact. Colleagues describe him as someone who finds value in forgotten corners of the internet—registering expired C2 domains to turn internal sinkholes into internet-scale research.
5 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Cyber Security/Information Assurance, Master of Science - MS Cyber Security/Information Assurance at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science - BS Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Western Governors UniversityCertificate Advanced Computer Security, Certificate Advanced Computer Security at Stanford University
Github Skills (16)
python-client6
confluent6
rest5
rest-api5
rest-services5
kafka4
jetty4
proxy3
librdkafka3
player1
kubernetes-operator1
apache-druid1
music1
kafka-python1
database1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
robertstucke/goPlayer
Jan 2021 - Dec 2021
A terminal-based music player
Contributions:1 push in 10 months
terminalmusicmusic-playerterminal-basedplayer
confluentinc/rest-utils
Nov 2023 - Nov 2023
Utilities and a small framework for building REST services with Jersey, Jackson, and Jetty.
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
jettyrestrest-services
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