Alistair Chapman
Senior Cloud Security Engineer at Red Hat
Queensland, Australia
Summary
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RockstarAlistair Chapman is a Senior Cloud Security Engineer with 11 years’ experience securing cloud platforms and shaping enterprise information security at Red Hat. He blends hands-on engineering and architecture work—from threat modelling to automation—built on earlier roles in technical architecture and network/security engineering. An active open-source contributor, he has improved test automation and build tooling for the widely used Cake (C# Make) project, showing a practical commitment to developer workflows and CI reliability. Based in Queensland, Australia, he speaks and writes on information security topics and occasionally returns to .NET development, keeping both security and developer ergonomics in view. Colleagues value his ability to translate complex security requirements into auditable, production-ready controls and testable infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (22)
unit-testing10
cakephp10
msbuild10
build-automation10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
testing9
test-framework9
dotnet9
continuous-integration9
net9
asp-net9
octopus-deploy7
azure-pipelines7
powershell6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
cake-build/cake
May 2016 - Nov 2020
:cake: Cake (C# Make) is a cross platform build automation system.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:12 commits, 12 PRs, 1 push in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Alistair focused on enhancing the testing infrastructure and extending the functionality of the Cake build automation system. Their contributions included developing tests for project file parsing, supporting framework profile properties, and incorporating test settings files for MSTestRunner. They also added support for TF Build command messages, and corrected the identification of hosted agents in Azure Pipelines. Furthermore, the user was involved in features related to the Octo push command and preserving path values in HintPath.
cake-buildbuild-automation-toolc-sharpdotnetcorenunit
agc93/cake
Jun 2016 - Nov 2020
Cake (C# Make) is a cross platform build automation system.
Contributions:41 pushes, 22 branches in 4 years 5 months
development-toolsdotnetsystem-automationcsharpautomation
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