Wes Lambert
Lead Engineer, NSM at Target
Augusta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWes Lambert is a cybersecurity and network security monitoring leader with over a decade of hands-on experience building and operating detection platforms, now serving as Lead Engineer, NSM at Target. He previously helped grow Security Onion Solutions from senior engineer to principal engineer, blending deep technical work—DevOps, backend integrations, and sensor tuning—with customer-facing support and professional services. A prolific open-source contributor, Wes has improved core tools used for enterprise threat hunting and log management (Security Onion, Velociraptor, Cortex analyzers), including integrations for Zeek, Wazuh, Logstash, and Elasticsearch. He pairs advanced technical credentials (Masters in Information Security and an MBA in IT Management) with practical operational instincts, and is known for turning complex telemetry and timestamp quirks into reliable ingestion and enrichment pipelines. Based in Augusta, Georgia, he combines enterprise-scale engineering with a practitioner’s appreciation for forensic detail and deployable automation.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) IT Management, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) IT Management at Western Governors UniversityBachelor's Biology, Bachelor's Biology at Augusta State University
English, Hindi
Github Skills (44)
computer-forensics10
analyser10
python10
scripting10
analyzer10
amazon-elasticsearch10
open-source10
analyse10
elasticsearchquery10
script10
go10
aws-elasticsearch10
code-analyzer10
cyber-threat-intelligence10
http-request10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
Security-Onion-Solutions/securityonion
Nov 2018 - Jan 2023
Security Onion is a free and open platform for threat hunting, enterprise security monitoring, and log management. It includes our own interfaces for alerting, dashboards, hunting, PCAP, detections, and case management. It also includes other tools such as osquery, CyberChef, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Suricata, and Zeek.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Security Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Security EngineerContributions:476 reviews, 1487 commits, 1483 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Wes primarily focused on enhancing the security and setup features within the Security Onion project, a platform for threat hunting and security monitoring. They implemented several changes to the setup script (`so-setup-network.sh`), including the installation and configuration of Wazuh agent, setting Elasticsearch index limits, and updating various pillar configurations. The user also made significant contributions to the integration of Zeek (Bro) and Logstash, specifically in the areas of log formatting and pipeline configuration.
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Velocidex/velociraptor
Aug 2020 - Dec 2022
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Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 40 commits, 43 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Wes primarily contributed to the backend logic of the Velociraptor project. Their commits include adding functionality for timestamp handling (Cocoa and HFS+ timestamps), implementing a plist plugin for parsing plist files, and adding an Elasticsearch enrichment artifact. Additionally, they made minor improvements to the code, correcting typos and modifying configuration-related aspects.
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