Résumé
Overview
I have been building secure, reliable, and resilient Internet-facing services on both the Linux and Windows platforms since the late 90s, and the consulted for years on Continuous Integration and automated deployment practices.
I’ve been responsible for PCI and SOC2 compliance programs for at least a decade, adding ISO 27001 more recently. I believe in enabling engineers to integrate lean, secure development processes into their daily activities by making it easier to always choose the secure path by default.
I always welcome a distraction to go deep into technical problems in area such as TLS, BGP, Kubernetes, or some new niche.
Employment History
Principal Security Engineer
Secure60 - Part-time
Jul 2025 - Present
New South Wales, Australia
Principal Infrastructure Engineer
Rackcorp - Part-time
Feb 2025 - Presen
New South Wales, Australia
VP, Security and Reliability
Webscale Networks - Full-time
Oct 2023 - Jan 2025
New South Wales, Australia
Managed the SOC and PCI DSS compliance programs, including auditor engagement, and ongoing compliance activities. Performed internal security reviews, established security policies, and managed internal maintenance and vulnerability programs. Liaised with customers, partners, and vendors for reliability and security concerns. Responsible for continuous improvement of operational practices and incident investigations and retrospectives. Also continued to be a technical, individual contributor in the engineering team.
VP, Security and Reliability
Section - Full-time
May 2021 - Jan 2025
New South Wales, Australia
VP, Engineering and Security
Section - Full-time
Jan 2019 - Apr 2021
New South Wales, Australia
Leading teams to build a secure, developer-focused edge compute platform for emerging Internet applications and services.
Principal Engineer, VP Information Security
Section - Full-time
Sep 2015 - Jan 2019
New South Wales, Australia
Building a Reverse-Proxy-as-a-service platform to provide a great operational and development workflow for running distributed caching, WAF, and other proxies for websites.
Principal Engineer, VP Information Security
Squixa - Full-time
Jun 2014 - Sep 2015
New South Wales, Australia
Developing and operating a Linux-based international website acceleration service. Optimising new and existing high-traffic websites for improved end-user performance and load-tolerance. Deployment automation and security hardening of the Linux-based infrastructure.
Senior Consultant, Technical Specialist (ALM)
Readify - Full-time
Aug 2010 - Jul 2014
New South Wales, Australia
- Lead a team of eight Readify developers (later four) for 6 months to migrate ~200 .NET and VB6 websites and applications from Oracle to SQL Server and implement automated UI testing.
- Provided consulting and implementations with numerous clients nationally in the financial, health, marketing, mining, and IT industries and all levels of government regarding:
- Agile application lifecycle process improvement including tooling, requirements gathering, architecture, automated testing, and release engineering.
- Training and development of technologies including C#, SQL Server, Team Foundation Server, PowerShell, Team City, MSBuild, and Hyper-V
Senior Developer
Readify - Full-time
Nov 2008 - Jul 2010
New South Wales, Australia
Worked with a team of both Readify and client developers to deliver a large Australian online auction website and established their ability to reliably deploy new features to production multiple times per week without downtime. Designed and implemented automated build and deploy processes for internal and external teams using Readify-hosted infrastructure. Provisioned, managed and automated Readify-hosted, public-facing Team Foundation Server and Lab Management infrastructure also including virtualization, IPv6 and PKI systems.
Software Developer
Local Government System Inc - Full-time
Feb 2006 - Oct 2008
Adelaide, South Australia
Worked as part of a team of three developers to deliver a complete .NET rewrite of all existing systems utilised by eleven South Australian regional councils. Was involved in all aspects of development, from database-design to user interface coding and everything in between. Was also involved in development of a set of Nationally-funded web services and associated web portal for electronic tracking of Building Development Applications between councils and associated agencies. Responsible for configuration and management of internal IT infrastructure and additional IT support to our clients also.
Software Developer
Berlin Wall Software Supermarket - Full-time
Apr 1998 - Jan 2006
Adelaide, South Australia
Designed and developed a replacement VB.NET accounting system to manage all sales, orders, and stock keeping for two retail stores with inter-store synchronisation. Developed software on the Microsoft-platform for in-house automation, rostering, cashbook, and B2B software to integrate with their existing Paradox-based legacy accounting system. Developed a website (based on PHP and MySQL) to provide a product search engine and online store with integration back to internal systems. Responsible for configuration and management of all internal IT infrastructure.