Aidan Smithers
Senior Cloud Security Engineer at Centrica
Borough of Runnymede, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAidan Smithers is a Senior Cloud Security Engineer with eight years' experience designing and automating secure, scalable cloud platforms across Azure and AWS. At Centrica he helped architect a multi-account AWS Organization and led automation that unified governance, FinOps and security while delivering CI automation and improved telemetry. He combines a software-engineering foundation (First Class Honours in Software Engineering) with hands-on SRE practice to build robust security tooling and data workflows that reduce risk and operational toil. Comfortable translating security requirements into automated pipelines, he focuses on getting the right data to the right people and embedding best practices into platform design. Outside enterprise work he has built diverse projects—from game engines to a music-inspired programming language—demonstrating a creative approach to problem solving. Based in the Borough of Runnymede, he brings a pragmatic, exploratory mindset summed up by his GitHub quip: "Coding is a harsh mistress."
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
G462 Computer Science (Software Engineering) Computer Science, G462 Computer Science (Software Engineering) Computer Science at Royal Holloway, University of London
Github Skills (28)
terraform10
terraform-provider10
aws10
spotify10
terraform-module9
command-line-tool9
macos8
command-line8
linux8
windows8
golang8
spotify-api7
cli7
nodejs6
webpack6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
porrige51122/Pond
Apr 2019 - Apr 2022
A tranquil pond to calm your mind
Contributions:86 commits, 17 PRs, 115 pushes in 3 years
calmsimple-ainodejsmindpond
porrige51122/Hacktoberfest2019
Oct 2019 - Sep 2020
Essay Breakout
Contributions:1 release, 20 PRs, 42 pushes in 11 months
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