Amyas Phillips
Business Unit Cyber Security Design Authority at Thales
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAmyas Phillips is a seasoned product and engineering leader with over a decade of experience architecting secure-by-design IoT, SaaS and digital trust solutions across defence, manufacturing, higher education, commercial buildings and climate finance. Currently serving as Business Unit Cyber Security Design Authority at Thales, he translates complex product-security principles into pragmatic, customer-tailored engineering practices that deliver measurable cyber resilience. He has built and led multi-disciplinary teams to ship field-update services, secure device provisioning, supply-chain integrity programmes and achieved independent product security certifications. As a founder and CTO he applied lean startup discipline to climate-fintech, raising pre-seed funding and creating a differentiated SME lending approach that paired cleantech vendors with ESG capital. Known for clear communication with customers and senior leadership, he combines deep technical pedigree (PhD in semiconductor laser diodes) with practical product instincts formed in both startups and large organisations. An active contributor to industry practice, he has chaired IoT security working groups and published influential guidance on SBOMs and supply-chain security.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Passive Wavelength Athermalisation of Semiconductor Laser Diodes, PhD, Passive Wavelength Athermalisation of Semiconductor Laser Diodes at University of CambridgeBSc (Hons), Physics, 2:1, BSc (Hons), Physics, 2:1 at University of Bristol
Github Skills (20)
mbed7
sdk6
serializer6
embedded5
azure-iothub4
iot4
c994
azure4
microsoft3
gcc3
microsoft-azure2
debug2
lwip2
elf2
mcu1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
githubteacher/welcome-july
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:3 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 1 day
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