Founded to stop Australia suffering data breaches, Threat Canary is a Security SaaS I'm developing on weekends and late at night 😎 We are tackling emerging security issues such as API Security through the application of AI/ML.

Kubernetes Community Days Australia is a Not For Profit organisation with the purpose of bringing Cloud Native events to Australia and advocating for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) locally, empowering the next frontier of Cloud Native engineering by bringing together community members, providing conferences and event management.

My role is split into two main focuses:1. Lead emerging security technologies R&D projects 2. Establish a new DevSecOps function and provide advisory and consultancy for DevSecOps, Application Security and contempoary approaches to Security Architecture within ServiceNSW across both Digital and Cybersecurity.In November 23 was involved in winning an award for digital innovation for the DevSecOps team. This involves advocacy, program management, leadership, deep subject matter expertise and close communication between our amazing CISO, CPO and Executive Directors, throughout the organisation to individual engineers. A truly simultaneous top down and bottom up approach to adoption of DevSecOps in an heavily regulated organisation that moves lightning fast. During this role, I'm responsible for: * Offensive Security Automation* Driving large AppSec program across 80+ product teams* Establishment of a DevSecOps function and framework, including the development of Secure Software Framework, DevSecOps Principles, Reference Architecture, Architectural Building Blocks and Patterns* Architecture and Guidance for Application Security Engineering* Threat Modelling * Automated Vulnerability Assessment* Architecture and Design of a Secure Software Factory to support 6000+ containers and provide Software Supply Chain Security* Secure Software Development Lifecycle to support 80+ product teams * Product/Platform team(s) AppSec & DevSecOps education and guidance* Project management and technical leadership to roll out several automated security solutions (SCA, SAST, DAST, RASP, Cloud, Container & Serverless Security) across the organisation.* Security awareness, training and cultural uplift (i.e. security champions, security awareness and development)

Building a next generation DevSecOps, Security Automation and Security Engineering practice and capability in Oceania, as part of EYs Cybersecurity Architecture Engineering & Emerging Technology division, within the Financial Services Organisation.In this role I am responsible across Australia / NZ and the point of contact for all things DevSecOps, Security Automation & Security Engineering. I also lend my expertise to Blockchain Security, Container Security and Cloud Security.Backed by my deep industry expertise and EYs global Cybersecurity firepower, this is a challenging role where I am faced on a daily basis with various hard tasks to tackle all whilst trying hard to avoid cutting myself on the bleeding edge.

With over 1400 members, join one of Sydneys largest Meetup groups, and one of the only that refuses to have Sales pitches! We are a fun loving group of people passionate about all things Automation, DevOps, DevSecOps, Cloud & Container Security. If you have struggled with compliance and innovation, you have found the right place for your answers!

Joined as CTO via Ayenem Merger Accelera is a business-first digital transformation management consultancy. Leveraging decades of leadership experience, Accelera works with business leaders to develop digital strategies that help them understand their customers and business through data,engage better with customers through digital platforms, innovate faster to deliver better services to customers, and improve efficiency by automating. This enables them to focus their people on what matters - growth.

https://www.arnnet.com.au/article/681455/accelera-acquires-sydney-cloud-player-ayenem/Ayenem is a Cloud & Container Security focused business that I co-founded and later sold in 2020 to Accelera Group, now forming parts of the Security, as well as Data and Platforms divisions.Ayenem provides leading edge secure solutions for public cloud platforms using DevSecOps practices, Container technologies and Agile Project Delivery. A company focused on Cloud, Container and Blockchain Security, Ayenem works with organisations to ensure agile delivery is secure, and easy.Primarily served financial services & blockchain industry. Customers included:CMC Markets86400XeroBlockLoan Immutable Info Salons GroupHolocentricSurf Life Saving AustraliaTransport for NSW

$PATH cryptocurrency ICO. Path Networks Pty Ltd was a Network Security & Software Engineering firm, which I bootstrapped and later exited into Path Network Inc, then LLC. Starting out as a network intelligence SaaS platform in key competition to Akamai, CloudFlare & ThousandEyes through Blockchain, AI/ML and Hybrid Cloud succeeded in delivering innovative network security solutions expanded into providing Application & Network Security services. During this role, I lead the company and technology both internally and dealing with external stakeholders. I formed a subsidiary Australian based software engineering company (Path Networks Pty Ltd) and built a team consisting of 5x FE, 3x BE, 1x UI/UX.Among other things, I architected, led and managed ongoing development of a Cloud-native, globally distributed, Blockchain powered monitoring platform. Primarily, I provided Technology Strategy, Roadmapping & Solution Architecture for:- Blockchain smart contract architecture, deployment and operation- Network Security & Monitoring Platform Development, FE+BE- Serverless Blockchain payment processing system (Node.JS, API Gateway, Kinesis Firehose, Redshift, DynamoDB, ReactJS, Web3JS, AWS Lambda, Serverless framework)- ERC20 token payment system (automated airdrop token distribution)- Mobile Token miner/reward Platform (React Native, Kotlin, Elixir, Kubernetes)- Data aggregation pipeline (K8S, Kafka, AWS, Scala)- CI/CD across Mobile, Web & Server- SSO (Google, Keycloak, OIDC)- Kubernetes (Horizontal Pod Autoscaling & Node Autoscaling on custom application metrics, OPA, kube2iam Heptio Ark, Monitoring & Logging (EFK, ElastAlert, Prometheus, Grafana), App SSO integration, Vault, CI/CD)- Hybrid Cloud rollout to EQX-LA1 & AWS- Blockchain Development (Web3JS, Truffle, Geth, Solidity) - C++, Elixir, Scala, Go, NodeJS, Python, JavaScript (ReactJS)- AWS - Kubernetes- Ansible NetDevOps - Network Intelligence- Network Security- DDoS Mitigation- Penetration Testing

Strut Digital M&A to build what became the Deloitte DevOps division, part of the TS&A Practice. It was during this role that I learned to bridge the gap between hardcore engineering, architecture and strategy.When it came to Cloud Security and Security Engineering, I was often looked to for leadership across various divisions in Deloitte. For most businesses today, technology is central to enabling strategy and execution excellence. Deloitte’s Technology Strategy & Architecture (TS&A) practice advises CIO’s and other CxO’s in developing and executing technology strategies that drive exceptional business value. In a world of accelerating change and technology innovation, Deloitte TS&A helps our clients identify areas that will make an impact on their business in order to drive focus on practical solutions that support the key business strategies.

Subcontracted to lead backend development during a PoC for an Australian Government focused social media platform. GCP, various GSuite APIs and Python SDK, Flask, etc. Privileged to work with such an incredible team during this project.

Architected, designed and implemented a containerised solution for an otherwise tricky and well-known-for-headaches Java monolithic application, Adobe Experience Manager to be continuously deployed and updated on AWS. I performed a live demonstration of this which was presented at AWS Summit Sydney 2017 - Automated CMS Deployment with Docker & Python.

Provide mentoring and coaching at conferences and through online communities about the adoption of Docker and best practices

~The original AWS Cloud & DevOps experts~

Facilitator of DevOps as a culture and enabler of DevOps technologies, originally brought in as a senior Systems/Network/Security Engineer to provide technical leadershipacross Applications Administration, Development, Infrastructure and QA teams to embrace DevOps, leveraging automation toolsets to introduce .NET CI/CD and uplift security posture (PCI-DSS compliance as code, SIEM, etc) and release applications much more swiftly and efficiently.

Sub-contracted to Tenable Network Security

BigAir - Acquired by Superloop. Enterprise & Commercial Wireless ISP. Cisco Routing & Switching, DDoS Mitigation, Network Engineering, Level 3 Network Support

highlights:i once installed a fixed-point radio on a tree. A straight up packet switching and routing TCP/IP hustler.

Transformed a residential focused WISP into commercial focused, building wholesale channel sales model with 80+ accounts from nothing. As of January, 2018, I've heard that I still hold the track record in Sales.