Alistair Riley
Security Consulting Manager at Mandiant (now part of Google Cloud)
Canberra, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAlistair Riley is a Canberra-based security leader with over 25 years of experience delivering complex gateway and cybersecurity solutions for commercial and government clients. He is currently Security Consulting Manager at Mandiant, now part of Google Cloud, where he guides strategic engagements that blend technical delivery with governance and risk considerations. A hallmark of his career was launching Verizon Business Asia Pacific SOC and building MSSP capabilities in a follow-the-sun model. In roles at Telstra and Verizon, he led large security operations teams, directed detection and response programs, and ensured enterprise-grade security and ISM/ISO compliance. He also holds a Diploma in Software Engineering from The Australian National University, and his technical breadth extends into embedded systems and Android open-source tooling, contributing to hardware monitor drivers and AOSP build/test automation.
25 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National University
English
Github Skills (45)
c-language10
python10
testing10
bionic10
android-build10
c1110
c-lib10
c1710
u-boot10
device-driver10
sys10
android10
build-automation10
embedded10
c-programming-language10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
aosp-mirror/platform_system_core
Sep 2019 - Mar 2021
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:97 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Alistair primarily contributed to the core system core of the AOSP platform. Their commits focused on low-level system utilities, including code modifications to test timing tolerance and debugging related issues, especially around core memory-related functionalities. These changes involved file system management, potentially for debugging or optimization. The user also contributed towards the boot process in init.rc, indicating involvement in the platform startup and system initialization.
jonsmirl/mpc5200
Jan 2008 - Sep 2009
Digispeaker
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:13 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Alistair primarily contributes to the `mpc5200` repository by modifying the abituguru3 hardware monitor driver. Their work focuses on improving the driver's accuracy by correcting whitespace inconsistencies in sensor names and enabling DMI probing for board detection. The contributions involve porting to the DMI probe method and adjusting the detection logic to accommodate variations in board names across BIOS revisions. This indicates a focus on hardware monitoring, board support, and device driver development within the context of an embedded system.
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