The security story

Everything tagged security across the whole site — work, projects, talks, and writing.

Positions

Oct 2022 — Oct 2023

Engineering leadership through the early start-up phase of an AI-governance software company, alongside my Faria role
Established data-security controls and engineering processes
Led systems design and optimisation of the Elixir/AWS platform; designed and shipped product features hands-on as part of a fast-paced, creative engineering team

May 2015 — Nov 2017

Erlang engineer on the original Processing Platform: a distributed-Erlang cluster over Riak doing big-data packet and log processing for real-time exploit and vulnerability detection
Architected and developed its ground-up replacement from the lessons of the first: serverless Erlang on AWS, with a custom bootstrap that brought an Erlang VM up inside a Lambda function and kept it warm for thirty minutes, fed by Kinesis and SQS, so capacity scaled horizontally with the firehose
Mentored an intern through building a GraphQL-based incident-analysis platform

Aug 2026 — present · Source

Aug 2023 — present

Sep 2005 — Jun 2009