Vic Hargrave
Engineering Consultant at Cloud Security Alliance
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVic Hargrave is a cloud security veteran with over 20 years of experience designing behavior analytics, threat management, and content-filtering solutions for vendors including Trend Micro, VMware, and Everfox. As Co-Chair of the Cloud Security Alliance Top Threats Working Group since 2015, he helps shape one of CSA’s most-downloaded annual reports that guides organizations on cloud risk and vulnerability management. He blends hands-on data engineering—ETL, parsers, and analytics for behavior-based detection—with platform integration and API evangelism to make security tooling more extensible and testable. Known for pioneering Elasticsearch usage in threat research and for automating datasets to validate ML models, he brings a pragmatic, evidence-driven approach to detecting insider and cloud threats. Based in California with a Stanford BS in Electrical Engineering, he combines deep product engineering experience with a knack for translating research into operational security controls.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electrical Engineering, BS, Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
Github Skills (77)
rootkit10
elasticsearch10
cpp10
visualizations10
rest10
search-engine10
java10
workqueue10
restful10
jekyll10
ossec10
tcp10
wireshark-dissector10
editor9
side-bar9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
vichargrave/mtserver
Mar 2013 - Oct 2020
Example code from my Multithreaded Work Queue Based Server in C++ blog.
Contributions:17 commits, 7 pushes, 1 issue in 7 years 7 months
cppworkqueue
vichargrave/vichargrave.github.io
Apr 2019 - Dec 2024
Website for my Github projects.
Contributions:59 PRs, 270 pushes, 27 branches in 5 years 9 months
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