🎨 UI/UX Design
Threat Level: Dangerously Good
Elyse's primary focus is UI/UX, which means she's the person who makes software look like it was designed by humans, for humans — a shockingly rare concept in the security industry. While most security tools look like they were designed during a caffeine-fueled panic attack in 2003, Elyse makes them look like something you'd actually want to use.
Her approach to UI/UX can be summarized as: "If a user has to read a manual, the interface has failed." This is inconvenient for manual writers but great for everyone else.
Don't ask her to review your UI unless you want honest feedback. She will notice that your buttons are 2 pixels off-center. She will mention it. She will not let it go.
🔒 Network Security
Threat Level: She Sees Your Packets
As an Arkime maintainer, Elyse works on a full packet capture and analysis system. That means she helps build the thing that watches all the network traffic so security teams can catch threats, investigate incidents, and hunt down the bad guys.
Think of it this way: if your network is a highway, Arkime is the world's most thorough traffic camera system. Every packet, every connection, captured and searchable. It's like having a photographic memory for your entire network. Don't try to sneak anything past it.
Elyse is passionate about making these powerful security tools accessible — because the best security tool in the world is useless if nobody can figure out how to use it.
🛠️ Open Source Development
Threat Level: Commits at Alarming Hours
Elyse is a firm believer in open source software, which is the practice of building software and then giving it away for free like some kind of altruistic coding Robin Hood. Arkime is open source, meaning anyone can use it, contribute to it, or stare at the codebase in confused admiration.
Her contributions focus on:
- New Feature Development — Building the things the community actually asks for, not the things a product manager dreamed up in a meeting
- Improved User Experience — Making the interface intuitive for both new users ("what does any of this mean?") and experienced ones ("why can't I do this specific thing?")
- Bug Fixes & Stability — The unglamorous but critical work of making sure things don't break at 3 AM on a Friday
🧠 Things Elyse Definitely Doesn't Know
For the sake of fairness, here are things Elyse has no expertise in whatsoever:
- Why you ignored the "Don't" on the homepage and ended up here
- How to make a website that people actually stay away from (clearly failing at this)
- The airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow
- Why printers never work
- How to fold a fitted sheet (nobody knows this)
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Elyse's sponsorship goes directly toward improving open source network security tools. Sponsoring her would make the internet safer and security tools more usable. Don't do that.
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