Zack Allen
Founder at Detection Engineering Weekly
Portland, Maine Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZack Allen is a security research, engineering, and product leader with 12 years of experience building teams and delivering high-impact security content and capabilities for customers. As founder of Detection Engineering Weekly and a senior leader at Datadog, he blends hands-on threat research, detection engineering, cloud security, and devops to translate intelligence into operational protections. His background spans enterprise threat intelligence leadership at ZeroFox, applied research at Fastly, and defense-focused cyber R&D, giving him a rare view across commercial and government security needs. An MBA from NYU Stern complements his technical bachelor’s in information assurance, enabling him to shape strategy and product while still “hacking some stuff” himself—often surfacing timely how-tos and detection playbooks for practitioners.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Bachelor of Science Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Rochester Institute of TechnologyMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at NYU Stern School of Business
Github Skills (117)
waf10
powerdns10
masking10
modsecurity10
rule10
querying10
scoring10
image10
cybersecurity9
statistics9
methodology9
owasp9
testing9
pii9
python9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
zmallen/pygraylog
Aug 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:1 release, 9 commits, 6 PRs in 7 months
apipythonapi-bindingsgraylog
zmallen/flock
Jan 2014 - Oct 2017
Contributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 2 pushes in 3 years 10 months
javascript
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