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Dragon SecurityDirector
Oct. 2024Letterkenny, County Donegal, Ireland
Druva Principal Security Architect
Sep. 2021 - Oct. 2024Letterkenny, County Donegal, Irelandimplemented sca and sast tooling across the organisation very early on, and this helped setup a lot of successes.
led and was involved with various aspects of the security team, including, but not limited to annual pentests, vendor management, product poc's, proposing new avenues of security awareness and upskilling through champion programs.
DruvaPrincipal Engineer
Sep. 2020 - Oct. 2021Letterkenny, County Donegal, IrelandBuilt a team of engineers to develop a kubernetes based solution for the worlds only true saas backup solution. As a manager, being involved with every step of the process from design through development and finally deploying to production was a massive task. i enjoyed the experience of it all, from hiring really great engineer, through to working with them constantly to build a resiliant product.
JPMorgan Chase & Co.Vice President
May. 2019 - Sep. 2020Scotland Working on migrating from legacy infrastructure to adopting Kubernetes for the CI infrastructure.
Building out ci/cd infrastructure in the cloud, and enabling the various pipelines and deployments to seamlessly scale in a hybrid fashion
Cash Connect South AfricaSenior Software Developer
Jul. 2017 - Jan. 2018Johannesburg Area, South AfricaBuilding Fintech as a service.
Leading the Cloud adoption architecture and rolling out the new business on AWS.
Implementing regular firmwide security scanning
Internet SolutionsITaaS Senior System Engineer, Cloud Operations
Aug. 2016 - Jun. 2017Johannesburg Area, South AfricaProvide 3rd level operational support Help to define and implement system testing strategies
Create automated test suites and harnesses
Manage the development and lab environments
Manage releases through to production deployment for our market leading enterprise cloud product. Analyze and troubleshoot issues with cloud product and environments
Deploy and upgrade development, test, lab and production systems
Drive System Test planning (system test case and suite definition, execution and automation)
Evaluate and test 3rd party vendor systems
Work with development team and systems architects Very strong Operating Systems knowledge and experience – Unix power user / system administrator
Excellent scripting skills
Excellent understanding of Internet protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, etc.) and network technologies (routers, switchers, load balancers, firewalls, VPNs)
Solid experience of database concepts and implementation, strong SQL skills
Previous experience testing APIs and web services
Experience with LDAP and/or open LDAP
Experience with VMware would be a distinct advantage
Experience with wiki, Jira and test automation tools Experience with agile software development methodology Understanding and experience of JAVA/JEE very useful.
Understanding and experience with cloud technolgies
TaioSolveChief Dragon Wrangler
Jan. 2016 - Apr. 2019Centurion, South AfricaCustom Web development
AWS Cloud architecture
AWS Cloud migration specialist
Discovery LimitedSecurity Specialist
Jan. 2016 - Jul. 2016Johannesburg Area, South AfricaSupporting business requirements for international markets mostly related to services contained in Amazon Web Services Cloud. Technologies utilized include most AWS services like EC2, RDS, Dynamo DB and Cloudfront This includes a fully agile approach, automation is key as the time frames for new implementations are usually small. Configuration management plays a big role so new services can be deployed quickly and without intervention. Technologies utilized include puppet / cf-engine and general scripting. Controlling access for different vendors and 3d parties using Checkpoint / Cisco ASA / Palo Alto technologies. Staying abreast of vulnerabilities that could impact the environment and taking preventative actions to avoid leakage of information or systems being compromised. Some Technologies : • AWS CLI / Python / Shell scripting
• RHEL Linux management and configuration
• Puppet / CF-Engine
• Checkpoint / Cisco ASA / Palo Alto
• LDAP
• Postfix / Exim
• Apache
• LVS / F5
• VPN / IPsec / Juniper
• Certificate management
Amazon Web ServicesNetwork Support Engineer
Jan. 2015 - Dec. 2015Cape Town Area, South AfricaBeing responsible for deploying network infrastructure across all of AWS network fabrics that supports the Amazon Retail Service, Kindle, Payments and multiple AWS services.
Deploy, scale and automate AWS network across multiple global datacenters. This includes existing footprints and greenfield locations.
Drive scaling of current network designs to meet the demand of AWS customers.
Create simple, repetitive deployment processes that increase both velocity and quality.
Work closely with our internal customers on designs/solutions; bringing those designs/solutions from concept to production.
Create and update our network standards and ensure that the network is deployed to these standards.
Create and implement changes on the network.
Work closely with automation teams in defining the tools that allow the network to scale at unprecedented volume.
Amazon Web ServicesAWS Dev Support
Sep. 2012 - Jun. 2015Cape TownLinux system administration (RHEL/CentOS/Debian), installation configuration and maintenance of various web hosting services: mail/web/database servers, python and bash shell scripting, backup, security, network setup and troubleshooting. AWS Cloud solutions (aws.amazon.com) Specialties:Deploying and administration of complex lamp/e-mail/vpn systems. Linux servers configuration, tweaking and maintenance. Network troubleshooting and setup. Xen virtualization. System architect.
PfortnerSystems Architect
Jan. 2008 - Sep. 2011Design, develop and secure open source based firewall with openvpn capabalities, and integrate port knocking capacity into vpn server component.
Goal Technology SolutionsSystems Architect
Apr. 2007 - Dec. 2008Design, develop and secure open source based firewall with openvpn
capabalities, and integrate port knocking capacity into vpn server component. Due to investor passing away, the development division was closed, and a new company was started see current
Oceanside Trading 654Owner
Jan. 2006 - Sep. 2012Design, develop and secure open source solutions. Among the solutions I
developed were:
Mysql based Radius AAA Server.
Mysql based Exim & Courier-imap server using vexim as a configuration
frontend. (Currently implemented at Goal Technology Solutions,
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