Summary
Carwyn Edwards is a seasoned systems and software engineer with 11+ years of experience delivering large-scale, secure IT infrastructure and digital products across higher education and the tech startup scene. Currently serving as Chief Information Security Officer at Probit Ltd., he blends hands-on engineering—spanning graph databases, software development and open source practices—with strategic security leadership. As co-founder and long-time organiser of North Wales Tech, he connects community-building and technical evangelism to practical product and data initiatives. His background includes senior infrastructure roles at Bangor University and consultancy leadership, giving him deep operational chops in reliability, event-driven workflows and data manipulation. Notably, he pairs early startup experience in high-reliability SMS systems with modern digital innovation work, making him equally at home in legacy ops and cutting-edge graph-driven analytics.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
B.Eng (hons), Software Engineering, B.Eng (hons), Software Engineering at The University of Edinburgh
English, Welsh