Spencer Niemi
Principal Security Engineer at Elastic
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSpencer Niemi is a Principal Security Engineer in Minneapolis with 11 years of experience bridging software development and cybersecurity. He builds and operationalizes large-scale security platforms—most notably engineering an Elastic-stack SIEM ingesting hundreds of thousands of events per second and automating monitoring across 100,000+ endpoints. Comfortable across C#, ASP.NET, Python, Java and modern front-end frameworks, he specializes in security automation, orchestration, and integrating disparate tools via APIs to streamline incident response. Spencer’s background as a developer and early hands-on roles at Best Buy and Geek Squad inform a pragmatic, product-minded approach to security that emphasizes measurable operational efficiency. He’s particularly effective at turning repetitive tasks into automated workflows, freeing teams to focus on higher-value detection and threat hunting.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Computer and Software Systems, Computer and Software Systems at University of WashingtonBachelor of Science - BS, Information Technology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Information Technology at Western Governors UniversityDiploma, Diploma at Bishop Blanchet High School
Github Skills (82)
opensearch10
integrations10
elasticsearch10
visualizations10
streaming10
client-library10
logstash10
jruby10
search-engine10
observability10
java10
elastic10
transport10
kibana10
restful10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
SpencerLN/DTP-Interpreter
Jun 2015 - Nov 2021
Interprets stock calls to automate day trading
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 2 branches in 6 years 6 months
pythoncallsdaytradingstock
SpencerLN/argocd-diff-action
Aug 2022 - Jun 2024
This GitHub action generates an ArgoCD diff between the current PR and the current state of the cluster.
Contributions:7 PRs, 5 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 10 months
argocdkubernetescontinuous-integrationclustersupply-chain-security
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