Victor Julien
Suricata IDS IPS Lead Developer
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolVictor Julien is a seasoned security software engineer and open-source leader with 11+ years focused on network and host protection, best known as the lead developer of the Suricata IDS/IPS at the Open Information Security Foundation. He combines deep C and multi-threading expertise with practical system administration skills across Linux, IPTables, IPv6 and traffic shaping to build high-performance intrusion detection and prevention systems. Victor has shepherded projects from code to community—managing Suricata’s development team, adapting Snort signatures for hardware acceleration, and creating tooling like SidReporter and ModSecurity connectors. Based in Amsterdam, he also founded and leads the Vuurmuur firewall project and shares expertise through teaching and a long-running security blog, reflecting a rare mix of hands-on engineering, project leadership, and community-driven security innovation.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Maartens CollegeMaster, Economic History, Master, Economic History at University of Groningen
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (55)
ips10
parser10
threat-hunting10
suricata10
cybersecurity10
git-repository10
network-monitoring10
security10
network-security10
ids10
intrusion-detection10
viewer9
event-viewer9
elasticsearch-client9
eve9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
inliniac/dumpy
Aug 2016 - Jan 2022
A web frontend to libpcap spool directories as produced by tcpdump or daemonlogger.
Contributions:1 push, 3 branches in 5 years 5 months
libpcapdirectoriesfrontendfrontend-webspool
inliniac/mobster
Nov 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 7 branches in 1 month
stream-processingevent-streamstreamingstreamkafka
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