Alejandro H. — Product Engineer

Alejandro Houspanossian is a Sr. Staff Security Researcher at Trellix with over 18 years of experience in software engineering and threat detection. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (Argentina). His career includes internships at T.U. Darmstadt and Siemens A.G. (Germany). Alejandro's current focus is on decoding modern cyber threats and delivering effective built-in detections for Trellix EDR. He leads detection efficacy improvement initiatives and values collaboration with threat intel, data science, software engineering, and customer-facing teams. Alejandro contributed to the ideation, design, and delivery of McAfee Investigator, MVISION EDR, and Trellix EDR. He also designed and implemented the detection engineering processes for Trellix EDR, which currently serves thousands of Trellix customers globally. Alejandro has presented his work at renowned conferences such as the SANS Blue Team Summit, SANS Threat Hunting Summit, Ekoparty, CyberGen, and BHack Brasil. Back in 2006, Alejandro joined Intel's enterprise software development team, where he participated in multiple R&D projects as both a software engineer and a technical project manager.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cybersecurity expert with a focus on threat detection and engineering.

Location: Cordoba, Córdoba, Argentina

Experience: 21 yrs 9 mos

Skills

Cybersecurity
Education
Threat Detection

Career Highlights

Over 18 years of experience in cybersecurity.
Led detection efficacy improvement initiatives at Trellix.
Presented at major cybersecurity conferences globally.

Work Experience

Trellix

Senior Staff Security Researcher (2 yrs 1 mo)

Cyber Threat Detection Specialist at Trellix (2 yrs 3 mos)

Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

Professor (3 mos)

McAfee

Threat Hunting Specialist, Applied Countermeasures, AC3 Team at McAfee (11 mos)

Threat Detection Engineer & Engineering Manager (MVISION EDR) (2 yrs 7 mos)

Software Engineering Manager; Agile Analytics Project Manager (McAfee Investigator) (1 yr 5 mos)

Intel Corporation

Software Engineering Manager (McAfee Investigator; Natural Language Processing; Cloud Services) (4 yrs 2 mos)

Software Engineer; Technical Project Manager (6 yrs 2 mos)

Intel

Software Engineer (2 yrs 2 mos)

Siemens AG

Research Assistant (3 mos)

Technische Universitaet Darmstadt

Research Assistant (1 yr 8 mos)

Delsat Group

SW developer (4 mos)

Schweriner Ausbildungszentrum

Trainee (1 mo)

Education

BS at Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires

Alejandro H.

Product Engineer

Cordoba, Córdoba, Argentina21 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 18 years of experience in cybersecurity.
Led detection efficacy improvement initiatives at Trellix.
Presented at major cybersecurity conferences globally.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cybersecurity expert with a focus on threat detection and engineering.

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Skills

Core Skills

CybersecurityEducationThreat Detection

Other Skills

Operaciones de seguridadGuest LecturingUniversity LecturingTeam ManagementScrumIntegrationSoftware DevelopmentProgram ManagementJIRAAgile MethodologiesWeb ServicesTechnical Project ManagementSplunkTroubleshootingCSPO

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Experience

21 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 4 mos

Current Experience

Trellix

2 roles

Senior Staff Security Researcher

Promoted

Apr 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 1 mo

Cyber Threat Detection Specialist at Trellix

Jan 2022 – Apr 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Operaciones de seguridadCybersecurity

Universidad nacional de córdoba

Professor

Mar 2024 – Jun 2024 · 3 mos · Hybrid

Profesor del modulo: "Aspectos de malware y modalidades de ciberataque" de la Diplomatura en Ciberseguridad de la UNC

Guest LecturingUniversity LecturingEducation

Mcafee

3 roles

Threat Hunting Specialist, Applied Countermeasures, AC3 Team at McAfee

Feb 2021 – Jan 2022 · 11 mos

Operaciones de seguridadCybersecurity

Threat Detection Engineer & Engineering Manager (MVISION EDR)

Jul 2018 – Feb 2021 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Played different roles. Engg manager of the initial Content team (~10 direct reports + outsourced team). Engg manager of the Security Analytics teams (5 direct reports). Sometimes Scrum Master, sometimes Product Owner. Sometimes tester. Sometimes developer (detection engineer). Sometimes Engg Support... Whatever it takes to deliver value to our customers.
Greatest achievements: contributed to build a great team and institutionalized a continuous improvement process that delivers less false positive detections and higher confidence detections step by step.

Operaciones de seguridadThreat Detection

Software Engineering Manager; Agile Analytics Project Manager (McAfee Investigator)

Feb 2017 – Jul 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos

Delivered McAfee Investigator SOC Investigation Playbooks and Analytics. Engineering manager + scrum master.

Intel corporation

2 roles

Software Engineering Manager (McAfee Investigator; Natural Language Processing; Cloud Services)

Jan 2013 – Mar 2017 · 4 yrs 2 mos

2015/2017- at Intel Security Group as Engineering Manager. Team focused on ideating, prototyping and delivering data-driven security solutions in context of a new Intel Security offering for the corporate segment. Highlights of the team include internal innovation award (2016, Santa Clara) and presentation at Intel Security Focus conference (2016, Las Vegas). Exercising agile methodologies to cope with project's high uncertainty level. Daily interactions with InfoSec experts, product managers, data scientists, and engineering teams. Responsibilities include building a security data science team; hiring (+10 professionals in 2016), people management, mentoring, project tracking and reporting.
2014/2015 - Applied agile methodologies to deliver a data platform for the Science Team at New Technology Group. Drove from product definition to implementation. Reported directly to sr management in US. Managed team of 4 in Cordoba + 2 engineers in US + small outsourced team. Technologies involved: scala, play, akka, elasticsearch, docker, opencloud, etc.
2013 - technical contributions focused on production support for the Intel Cloud Service Platform program; participation at program level planning/tracking activities; engineering manager, working on career development and performance management (team of 4); and engineering process improvements. Technologies involved: cloud services, REST APIs, Splunk.

Software Engineer; Technical Project Manager

Oct 2006 – Dec 2012 · 6 yrs 2 mos

2011/2012 - project manager and component leader (from requirements management to production support) for 10+ projects, interacting with internal and external customers, and Intel subsidiaries (multi-geo); completed Project Management diploma course; ramped up on engineering management; coordinated team of 4 peers and worked closely with software development team; participation at program level strategy definition/planning/tracking activities.
2009/2010 - project manager and component leader, working on software development and integration projects with internal customers (multi-geo).

Intel

Software Engineer

Oct 2006 – Dec 2008 · 2 yrs 2 mos

2007/2008 - software developer at different projects (technologies: Java, .Net among others)

Siemens ag

Research Assistant

Jun 2006 – Sep 2006 · 3 mos

Research activities focused on systems integration: specifications, standards and tools for Web Services orchestration and workflow automation.

Technische universitaet darmstadt

Research Assistant

Jul 2004 – Mar 2006 · 1 yr 8 mos

Research Project at TU-Darmstadt (Germany); development of an enhanced BPEL engine: BPEL specification and related technologies (SOA, WSs, WS-Stack, etc.).