Aidan Steele
Security Engineer at Block
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolAidan Steele is a Melbourne-based Security Engineer with 15 years of hands-on experience building and hardening production software across startups and large product teams. He combines deep systems curiosity—spanning Ruby, C, Objective-C, Go, Swift and more—with a practical drive to improve developer productivity, runtime performance and secure delivery pipelines. Aidan has led delivery and security initiatives that cut costs, accelerated release cadence from months to hours, and helped teams achieve ISO 27001 and SOC 2 compliance. As a founding engineer and serverless practitioner he bridges mobile, backend and infra concerns, often creating bespoke tooling to remove monotony and unblock teams. Outside of formal roles he’s a relentless tinkerer who enjoys understanding the full stack (and the perfect chicken parm), bringing a pragmatic, coachable approach to mentoring engineers.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Melbourne High School
Stackoverflow
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110answers
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iphone
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objective-c
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Github Skills (200)
libgit210
command-line-tool10
aws-serverless10
serverless10
idempotent10
ecosystem10
pattern10
parameter-store10
minification10
shim10
flashing10
policies10
ssm10
amazon10
regex10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
aidansteele/codebuild
Jul 2020 - Sep 2020
A completely unofficial source of CodeBuild Docker images
Contributions:21 commits, 2 PRs, 17 pushes in 2 months
dockerfiledocker-imagedockerbusterhydrogen
glassechidna/stackit
Apr 2017 - Jun 2021
Cross-platform CloudFormation CLI tool for easy synchronous and idempotent stack updates
Contributions:41 releases, 161 commits, 14 PRs in 4 years 2 months
golangidempotentosxwindowslinux
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