Dain Perkins
FDE at Snyk
Vernon, Connecticut, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDain Perkins is an experienced security-focused solutions engineer with seven years in senior technical roles and over two decades of hands-on experience across sales engineering, consulting, and product-focused security at companies like Elastic and Snyk. He combines deep technical fluency in security platforms with a strong customer-facing track record—helping translate complex security needs into practical, deployable solutions and enablement for sales teams. As a former Principal PME and Solution Architect at Elastic, he’s bridged product engineering and field success, and now focuses on emerging technologies at Snyk. Based in Vernon, Connecticut, Dain has a history of leadership in professional security communities (ISSA-CT) and a multi-disciplinary education in computer science and security, reflecting a pragmatic blend of engineering, sales, and community-driven mentorship.
7 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
UMass LowellEngineering CS, Engineering CS at University of ConnecticutBSIT/ Sec IT/IS, BSIT/ Sec IT/IS at Western Governors University
Github Skills (30)
observability10
metricbeat10
heartbeat10
common-schema10
kibana10
filebeat10
packetbeat10
elastic-common-schema10
logstash10
elasticsearch10
elastic10
visualizations10
avro9
bmp9
netflow9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dainperkins/netbeat
Dec 2024 - Feb 2026
An SNMP monitor using libbeat.
Contributions:87 PRs, 97 pushes, 97 branches in 1 year 2 months
dainperkins/Elastic-ECS-SIEM
Mar 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:67 commits, 65 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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