Scott Brown
Senior Security Architect at JustPlainSimple Technologies, Inc.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Brown is a seasoned security architect and cloud SRE leader with 12+ years delivering secure, scalable, cost-conscious cloud architectures across AWS. He blends hands-on software development with security strategy, championing left-shifted security, multi-account AWS governance, centralized policy, and rigorous compliance programs (SOC 2 II, ISO27001, HIPAA, GDPR). As reflected in his GitHub bio—'Security Architect, Cloud SRE, solver of problems using code'—he has built and led teams that dramatically reduce risk with proactive tooling and secure-by-default practices. In roles at KOHO, Treasure Data, Unbounce, and EA, he has spearheaded initiatives that improved security visibility (GitHub Advanced Security/Inspector to 90%+), and reduced vulnerabilities through automation and a rigorous vulnerability program. He is a founder of JustPlainSimple Technologies, focusing on AWS security and DevSecOps with clients including TELUS, UBC, and Electronic Arts. Based in Vancouver, he combines entrepreneurial drive with practical, auditable security solutions that empower development teams to move fast without sacrificing safety.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) at The University of British Columbia
Github Skills (100)
build-time10
aws-cli10
amazon10
aws10
user-data10
aws-security9
static-analysis9
ansible9
agile9
cli9
azure9
risk-analysis9
command-line-interface9
terraform9
gcp9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
scottbrown/paw
Aug 2018 - Apr 2023
Privileged Access Watcher: Notifies Slack channels when a member is added to/removed from an IAM group.
Contributions:3 PRs, 6 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 9 months
memberslack-channelsslackchannelsiam
scottbrown/aws-stack-tools
Feb 2016 - Mar 2023
A suite of tools to interact with AWS stacks
Contributions:1 release, 19 PRs, 22 pushes in 7 years 1 month
aws-cliinteractstacksawsaws-stacks
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