Alistair Riley
Security Consulting Manager at Mandiant (now part of Google Cloud)
Canberra, Australia
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolAlistair Riley is a seasoned cyber defence leader with 26 years’ experience delivering security operations, incident response and SOC transformation for government and large enterprises across Australia. Currently Security Consulting Manager at Mandiant (now part of Google Cloud), he blends strategic advisory work with hands-on engineering, having led SOC design, detection development and major incident remediation at organisations including Telstra and Verizon. His background spans network and systems engineering, managed security services and software development, with early experience building eLearning platforms and a diploma in software engineering from ANU. Alistair also contributes to low-level and embedded open-source projects—working on AOSP system init, build tooling and device drivers—demonstrating comfort with kernel-adjacent code and platform build systems. That mix of deep operational leadership and practical low-level engineering gives him a rare ability to translate executive risk decisions into concrete technical controls and buildable roadmaps. Based in Canberra, he is known for pragmatic, standards-aligned approaches (NIST, MITRE, ISO/ISM) that balance people, process and technology.
26 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National University
English
Github Skills (41)
c-language10
python10
testing10
bionic10
android-build10
c1110
c1710
device-driver10
u-boot10
sys10
android10
build-automation10
embedded10
clib10
cprogramming-language10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
aosp-mirror/platform_system_core
Sep 2019 - Mar 2021
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:97 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Alistair primarily contributed to the core system core of the AOSP platform. Their commits focused on low-level system utilities, including code modifications to test timing tolerance and debugging related issues, especially around core memory-related functionalities. These changes involved file system management, potentially for debugging or optimization. The user also contributed towards the boot process in init.rc, indicating involvement in the platform startup and system initialization.
jonsmirl/mpc5200
Jan 2008 - Sep 2009
Digispeaker
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:13 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Alistair primarily contributes to the `mpc5200` repository by modifying the abituguru3 hardware monitor driver. Their work focuses on improving the driver's accuracy by correcting whitespace inconsistencies in sensor names and enabling DMI probing for board detection. The contributions involve porting to the DMI probe method and adjusting the detection logic to accommodate variations in board names across BIOS revisions. This indicates a focus on hardware monitoring, board support, and device driver development within the context of an embedded system.
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.