Charles Neill
Principal Architect at DefectDojo
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolCharles Neill is a Principal Architect and application security specialist with 11 years of experience building automation and tooling to keep security woven into the SDLC. Currently shaping DefectDojo as a platform for consolidating and managing security findings, he brings hands-on experience designing, shipping, and reviewing features that scale across diverse toolchains. Previously he built the “plumbing” for enterprise appsec at TIBCO and implemented DevSecOps guardrails for Kubernetes-deployed apps at OnDeck, pairing threat modeling with practical automation. Known for pragmatic open-source involvement (notably with DefectDojo and Syntribos) he balances developer-friendly workflows with rigorous security standards. Based in Austin, he blends a CS degree from UT Austin with a research-curious mindset—evident from early work on innovation research and event-focused web development—that keeps him focused on usable, measurable security outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Computer Science, Bachelors Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
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Github Skills (75)
devsecops10
vulnerability-management10
python10
security-automation10
security10
automation10
django10
owasp10
kubernetes10
vulnerability10
analytics10
devops10
ruby7
dockerfile7
linux7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cneill/barbican
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:6 commits, 18 PRs, 84 pushes in 20 days
secureapiprovisioningsecure-storagesecrets
cneill/jsonstruct
Jul 2021 - Sep 2023
Create Go structs from JSON examples
Contributions:3 PRs, 61 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 2 months
golangjson
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