Alex Haydock
Senior Security Engineer at Bridewell
Royal Leamington Spa, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlex Haydock is a Senior Security Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building SecOps, SOC, and SIEM tooling across critical infrastructure organisations in the UK. He has progressed from platform engineering to leading cyber operations and security automation teams at National Grid and the National Energy System Operator, and now contributes at Bridewell. Alex blends engineering leadership with practical automation—contributing to well-regarded open-source security automation content (ComplianceAsCode) by hardening SSH rules and improving test configurations. He’s comfortable translating regulatory and operational needs into auditable, automated controls and has a knack for catching human-versus-bot signals (hence the emoji trick). Based in Royal Leamington Spa, he pairs pragmatic security engineering with clear operational governance across complex, safety-critical environments.
10 years of coding experience
Master in Law Law, Master in Law Law at Northumbria University
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (11)
security10
cybersecurity10
ansible-galaxy10
bash10
security-hardening10
security-automation10
ansible10
cap9
openscap9
sca9
compliance9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
ComplianceAsCode/content
May 2021 - Dec 2021
Security automation content in SCAP, Bash, Ansible, and other formats
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:36 reviews, 87 commits, 13 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Alex's contributions primarily involve enhancing security automation content. They added rules to configure SSH server settings such as `MaxStartups` to improve security. They also addressed code review feedback, refining existing security configurations. Furthermore, the user updated testing configurations and merged branches related to security profiles.
compliancecpescapsecurity-hardeningnessus
ajhaydock/dotfiles
Jul 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:182 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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