Alan Smith
Director at Armor Solutions
Plymouth, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarAlan Smith is a Director based in Plymouth, England with a decade of experience focused on information security and software engineering leadership. He combines strategic oversight with hands-on back-end development, demonstrated by contributions to Mozilla's MozDef incident response platform where he improved installation docs and debugged core components. At Armor Solutions he leads teams delivering practical, auditable security solutions, bridging operational needs and developer workflows. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex security requirements into maintainable implementations and clear documentation. He brings a pragmatic, detail-oriented approach—equally comfortable refactoring legacy systems as shaping security strategy.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (9)
python9
documentation8
aws-elasticsearch7
amazon-elasticsearch7
elasticsearch-api7
elasticsearch7
git7
elasticsearchquery7
security6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
mozilla/MozDef
Feb 2016 - Aug 2020
DEPRECATED - MozDef: Mozilla Enterprise Defense Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:346 commits, 497 PRs, 650 pushes in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Alan primarily contributed to fixing and updating aspects of the MozDef platform's installation and functionality. The user corrected the pip source URL in the installation documentation. They also made minor corrections to HTML files, file paths, and language in the alerts. In addition, the user reverted and modified code in various files within the project, indicating involvement in debugging or refactoring of existing components.
pythonelksecurityelk-stackelasticsearch
Phrozyn/scriptlets
Jan 2017 - Feb 2022
random scriptlets that help me do stuff
Contributions:4 PRs, 8 pushes, 7 branches in 5 years 2 months
scriptscriptingazerothcoresherlockpython-script
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