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About Me
Chartered IT Professional and security engineering specialist working across secure platforms, cryptographic systems, DevSecOps, and cyber security education.
Resume
Security and Platform Engineer with expertise in platform security, secure software delivery, and cyber security education.
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Thinking Back to TI 2018, OpenAI Five, and How AI Changed So Fast
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The recent public arguments around OpenAI’s nonprofit roots, its later for-profit structure, and the long-running fallout between Elon Musk and Sam Altman brought back a very specific memory for me: watching the Dota 2 tournament livestream around TI 2018 and thinking, even then, that something unusual was happening. OpenAI started in 2015 as a nonprofit, later created a capped-profit arm in 2019, and the tension between mission, control, money, and scale has stayed attached to the company ever since. 12
I Built a Jira Daily Stand-up Summariser in n8n with Gemini — in About 90 Minutes
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A practical write-up of building an n8n automation that reads Jira issues every morning, summarises progress and risks with Gemini, and turns board noise into a concise stand-up report.
portfolio
Container Security and DevSecOps Platform
Independently designed container-security project demonstrating hardened workloads, automated security scanning, Kubernetes policy enforcement, network isolation, and GitOps delivery.
Post‑Quantum Secure Messaging System
MSc dissertation on post-quantum secure messaging, focusing on hybrid authenticated key exchange and signcryption for end-to-end encrypted systems.
talks
SSH Certificates (Jumphost DMZ System)
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It was a privilege to engage with second-year Cyber Security undergraduate students at WMG, University of Warwick, in a session focused on SSH certificate-based remote access and the design of a jumphost-based access solution for enterprise environments.
Cryptography in the Wild (Public Key Infrastructure, Certificates)
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It was a privilege to engage with Master’s students from the Cyber Security Engineering and Cyber Security Management programmes at WMG, University of Warwick, in a session on Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), digital certificates, and the practical use of cryptography in real-world systems. The supporting repository for the session was prepared for Warwick MSc students in CSE and CSM and includes the presentation slides together with a Docker-based demo setup. 12
ACE-CSE Cybersecurity Talk Series 2025-26
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I help organise the ACE-CSE Cybersecurity Talk Series at WMG, University of Warwick, where I lead speaker engagement and relationship management across the series. The programme brings together academic experts, industry practitioners, and senior security leaders to expose students to current ideas, emerging threats, professional practice, and career pathways across cyber security.
teaching
Undergraduate Security Engineering
1st and 2nd year Undergraduate course, University of Warwick, WMG, 2024
I teach across undergraduate Security Engineering modules at the University of Warwick, with a focus on helping students connect core computing concepts to practical cyber security problems through programming, software engineering, and secure systems thinking.
Cloud & Virtualisation Security (WM9PG-15)
Masters Cyber Security Management and Engineering, University of Warwick, WMG, 2025
I am the module lead and co-teach Cloud & Virtualisation Security (WM9PG-15) at the University of Warwick. This Master’s-level module explores the cyber security implications of virtualised systems, with particular emphasis on software containerisation technologies such as Docker, trust relationships across host and container environments, resource isolation, and Secure Software Lifecycle thinking in modern cloud and virtualised systems.