We live in a fluid and continually transforming technology landscape.
Staying ahead of the curve and ahead of malicious threats are part
of everyday life to ensure we are not tomorrow's hacker news.
As a Cloud Native Security Developer Advocate, I focus closely
on developers and operations to assist with building security into
their pipeline and ensure that a culture of DevSecOps is introduced
early. Open-source software is key to a successful security strategy.
Defining what "good" looks like and what "best practice" represents
can change as fast as the technologies that drive us forward. I thrive
on working through these challenges.
Security can be an enabler. Applying depth to your defensive
strategy while maintaining velocity through automation and process
can power your organisation and it's software to thrive.
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DevSecOps - London Gathering
Co Organizer
September 2021 - Present (2 years 6 months)
London, England, United Kingdom
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Palo Alto Networks
Developer Advocate
May 2021 - Present (2 years 10 months)
United Kingdom
As we move towards the declarative nirvana of "everything as code", how does this affect our approach to security?
In spite of security's noble but often both poorly defined and received attempts at hanging with the cool kids with forced parlance like DevSecOps and shiftleft, this same change which is enabling the daft punk infused better, faster, and stronger of DevOps can also bring a secure by default definition of "harder". Security used to be more about probability. Within the desired state, can reside a desired security. With each layer and stage we add throughout our pipeline from Terraform to Yaml, with the help of Bridgecrew not only can we define what secure means, we can also sustain it.
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StackRox
Director of Solution Architecture and Community
October 2020 - March 2021 (6 months)
London, England, United Kingdom
As a "first on the ground" position again, this time for EMEA, my role was pivotal to growth. This divided my time between acting as the first pre-sales technical architect, driving partner engagement and enablement to scale our presence, and driving brand awareness of the StackRox Kubernetes native approach to security through strategic community building initiatives and engagements. The long term goal is to both build a team of solution architects to complement the sales organisation and amplify our focus on widening the Kubernetes security community.
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Aqua Security
Solutions Architect
March 2019 - October 2020 (1 year 8 months)
London, United Kingdom
As a first on the ground solution architect for Aqua Security in the UK, I wore many hats. My primary objective was engaging with companies ranging from cloud-first start-ups to enterprise financial institutions in a pre-sales role to bring clarity to what cloud-native security means and how Aqua can bridge the gap allowing for secure deployments in Kubernetes and the cloud. As an essential part of that role, it was great fun engaging with the cloud-native and cybersecurity communities in public speaking engagements, generating lively content (video and podcast) to accelerate brand awareness and, of course, consume beer and pizza at scale.
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Synopsys Inc
Solutions Architect
November 2018 - March 2019 (5 months)
United Kingdom
Worked with major accounts to architect and resolve product adoption and ROI for security automation at scale. This was a holistic approach to drive the success of the DevSecOps pipeline, combining the Synopsys product range with open-source solutions, automation, and best practices. The by-product of this was to act as a customer advocate to feed use cases, successes, and customer feedback to product and the sales organisation to ensure the organization as a whole was responsive to customer requirements.
