Alain O'dea
Senior Director, Technology & Security at Sequence Bio
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
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Top SchoolAlain O'dea is a seasoned technology and security leader with 17 years of experience designing resilient systems, cloud infrastructure, and security programs, now serving as Senior Director of Technology & Security at Sequence Bio. He combines deep hands-on engineering roots—from embedded systems and compiler work to Java-based SaaS architectures—with strategic leadership in secure development lifecycles and infrastructure for sensitive genomics data. At Verafin he led secure development and high-availability architecture, and at Sequence Bio he’s scaled cloud and privacy controls to support a large-scale NL Genome Project. An active practitioner of practical DevOps and security tooling, he has contributed improvements to open-source tooling like an Okta AWS CLI assume-role utility, adding cross-platform builds and session resumption features. Known for mentoring engineers and translating user-focused design into secure, auditable systems, he brings a rare blend of UX sensibility and security-first architecture.
18 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BEng, Computer Hardware/Software Design, BEng, Computer Hardware/Software Design at Memorial University of Newfoundland
French, English
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Github Skills (20)
terraform10
java10
javas10
maven10
aws-cli10
scala9
amazon-web-services9
bash9
devops9
log4j9
arraylist9
powershell9
authentication8
user-authentication8
security7
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
oktadev/okta-aws-cli-assume-role
Apr 2017 - Mar 2019
Okta AWS CLI Assume Role Tool
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:9 releases, 150 commits, 119 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Alain primarily focused on refactoring and improving the Okta AWS CLI Assume Role Tool. Their contributions involved migrating dependencies to Maven, creating a build process for a self-contained JAR file, and updating the CLI scripts for cross-platform compatibility. They also implemented session management features, enabling session resumption and preventing password re-entry. Further efforts included providing support for PowerShell integration.
assume-roleaws-cliokta
AlainODea/opensaml-idp-example
Feb 2018 - Nov 2020
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
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