Breandán Knowlton-hung
Chief Information Security Officer
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBreandán Knowlton-hung is Chief Information Security Officer at the UK Government Digital Service with 13 years of experience shaping technology and security standards across government, startups, consultancies and nonprofits. He has led architecture and innovation teams in the Cabinet Office and GDS, driving adoption of GovTech Catalyst approaches and improving the Technology Code of Practice and Digital Service Standard. Known for translating between design, business and engineering, he combines hands-on technical architecture with strategic leadership and risk-aware decision making. His background spans product, UX and community-focused digital heritage projects, including leading Historypin and Europeana programmes that connected cultural institutions at scale. Based in London, he brings a rare mix of public-sector standards setting and grassroots product delivery, with a side of ethnomusicology informing a human-centred approach to technology. Colleagues value his ability to nudge large organisations toward practical, secure reuse of patterns, tools and components.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BA Letters Arts & Sciences, BA Letters Arts & Sciences at Penn State UniversityScrúdú Ceol Tíre Senior III Music Performance, Scrúdú Ceol Tíre Senior III Music Performance at ComhaltasPublic Speaking, Public Speaking at New York UniversityDiploma, Diploma at Delta ProgramSonic Arts, Sonic Arts at City College of New YorkMA Ethnomusicology, MA Ethnomusicology at University of LimerickMusic Composition, Music Composition at The Juilliard School
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Github Skills (14)
sql-server9
prototyping8
owin6
asp-net6
xmlhttprequest6
event-handling6
prototypes6
visual-studio6
pagelifecycle6
angularjs6
europeana5
container3
open-source1
collaboration1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bfk/tcop-eval
Dec 2017 - Oct 2018
Alpha prototype of a tool to evaluate a technology platform against the GOV.UK Technology Code of Practice
Contributions:48 commits, 2 PRs, 33 pushes in 9 months
govprototypegovukevaluate
bfk/git-register
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 9 days
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