Byron Pogson
Greater Perth Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolByron Pogson is a Senior Security Architect with nine years’ experience helping organisations across Western and South Australia translate business needs into secure, scalable cloud strategies. At AWS he has guided C-level executives and engineering teams through threat modelling, least-privilege IAM, automated compliance and supply-chain security, and contributed to the security pillar of the Well-Architected Framework. His background ranges from lead developer at a startup to solutions and platform architect roles in mining, giving him a rare blend of hands-on engineering, product direction and operational security experience. Byron is a pragmatic mentor who builds security champion programs to reduce implementation cost and accelerate delivery, and he’s run region-wide enablement that trained 170+ engineers in threat modelling. He also contributes to notable open-source security work, improving IAM automation and integrating IAM Access Analyzer into the aws-well-architected-labs repository. Based in the Greater Perth area, he combines technical depth with practical, customer-focused advocacy to shape platform roadmaps and incident response readiness.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.CompSci B.Comm, B.CompSci B.Comm at The University of Western AustraliaHale School
Github Skills (7)
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aws10
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python10
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
awslabs/aws-well-architected-labs
Apr 2019 - Dec 2022
Hands on labs and code to help you learn, measure, and build using architectural best practices.
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 25 commits, 2 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Byron primarily focused on enhancing the security aspects of the AWS Well-Architected Labs repository. The contributions involved updating an automated IAM user cleanup script to incorporate role checks and integrating IAM Access Analyzer for identifying potential security vulnerabilities. This suggests a focus on improving the automated security controls and proactively identifying potential security risks. The user's changes directly address critical security considerations within the AWS environment, and integrate a new tool for more comprehensive checking.
hands-onsecurityresiliencywell-architectedreliability-engineering
ManufacturingIntelligence/nhibernate-core
Apr 2017 - Oct 2017
NHibernate Object Relational Mapper
Contributions:10 PRs, 21 pushes, 3 branches in 6 months
dotnetrelationalcsharpdatabasemapper
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