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Thruline

The throughline of my full-time work. Most of it has gone into building security software, and these days I'm building something of my own.

  • Paloma

    2023 – present

    Co-Founder

    Building a first of its kind private event success platform for venues and guests looking to bring people together.

  • Trend Micro

    2011 – 2023

    Development Leader, Cloud & Data Center Security

    A decade in engineering, development-leadership, and strategy roles on Trend Micro’s cloud and data center security products, from the Deep Security management server through to its cloud-native successor.

  • Third Brigade

    2006 – 2011

    Software Developer, Team Lead

    One of the first handful of developers on the server side (Java) of Deep Security, a host-based intrusion-prevention platform. Third Brigade was acquired by Trend Micro in 2009.

  • Entrust

    2000 – 2005

    Software Developer

    Built and maintained security software (PKI systems, web authentication, email encryption, and developer toolkits) across Windows, Solaris, HP-UX, and AIX. Where I cut my teeth and found I enjoyed and wasn't terrible at making software.

Education

  • Bachelor of Science, Honours, Computing and Information Science, Queen’s University, Kingston 1996 – 2000