Sergey Malinkin
Senior Cybersecurity Engineer at ЦИАН ГРУПП
Moscow, Moscow, Russia
Summary
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Top SchoolSergey Malinkin is a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer based in Moscow with nearly a decade of hands-on experience securing infrastructure and building detection platforms. He has deep expertise designing and deploying SIEM and IPS/IDS solutions—both commercial and open source—plus vulnerability management, investigations, automation, and troubleshooting. At ЦИАН ГРУПП he leads practical security engineering efforts, drawing on prior roles that progressed from system administration to senior security positions. Sergey contributes to open-source tooling, notably improving the ElastAlert2 GELF alerter to support flexible Graylog payloads, tests, and documentation. He combines pragmatic engineering with investigative rigor, often turning complex monitoring gaps into automated, maintainable alerting. His background in an Information Security Specialist program underpins a methodical approach to infrastructure risk reduction.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist Degree, Information Security Specialist, Specialist Degree, Information Security Specialist at Российский государственный университет туризма и сервиса
Github Skills (13)
alertdialog10
alertview10
alerts10
python10
gelf10
testing8
documentation7
json7
elasticsearch-api5
amazon-elasticsearch5
aws-elasticsearch5
elasticsearchquery5
elasticsearch5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jertel/elastalert2
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
ElastAlert 2 is a continuation of the original yelp/elastalert project. Pull requests are appreciated!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 10 commits, 5 PRs in 21 days
Contributions summary:Sergey primarily focused on enhancing the GELF (Graylog Extended Log Format) alerter within the ElastAlert 2 project. They implemented the GELF alerter, enabling users to send custom messages to Graylog. The user also removed unused imports and refactored the code, adding documentation, and tests to improve the functionality and maintainability of the GELF alerter. These changes allow the user to configure GELF HTTP or TCP alerts with flexible payloads.
elastalertcontinuationpull-requestsyelpelasticsearch
malinkinsa/docker-suricata
Sep 2020 - Aug 2021
Suricata Docker Image with enabled profiling
Contributions:30 commits, 4 PRs, 38 pushes in 10 months
profilingdocker-imagedockersuricata
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