Andrew Martin
London, England, United Kingdom
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RockstarAndrew Martin is a security engineer, founder, and CEO of ControlPlane with 14 years of hands-on experience solving cloud-native security challenges across government, financial services, and the private sector. He combines deep technical expertise in architecture, development, testing, and operations with a practical, lead-by-example approach to building high-performing teams. A vocal advocate for supply chain security, Andrew contributes to open-source tooling—notably enhancing kubesec’s Kubernetes risk analysis rules and improving a Kubernetes security training platform’s UX and automation. He is also an educator, public speaker, and community builder who enjoys tackling difficult problems and translating complex security needs into auditable, operational solutions.
13 years of coding experience
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kubernetes10
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Github contributions (5)
controlplaneio/kubesec
Oct 2017 - Jun 2021
Security risk analysis for Kubernetes resources
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 391 commits, 24 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily focused on enhancing the security analysis capabilities of the `kubesec` repository, a tool for assessing the security of Kubernetes resources. Their commits involved adding and refactoring security tests, specifically focusing on Seccomp and AppArmor profiles. Key contributions included the implementation of new rules related to `capDropAll`, `capDropAny`, `hostAliases`, and `seccompUnconfined`.
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controlplaneio/simulator
Jul 2019 - Sep 2022
Kubernetes Security Training Platform - focusing on security mitigation
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:8 reviews, 26 commits, 13 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Andrew focused on enhancing the user experience and automation within the Kubernetes security training platform. They added Bash completion scripts and structured logging capabilities, improving the command-line interface. Furthermore, the user refactored the `launch-entrypoint.sh` script, adding functionality to configure the AWS environment, bash aliases, and input settings. They also made enhancements to the attack container shell experience, including bash completion and modified prompts.
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