Chris Lyttle
Senior Information Security Architect
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Lyttle is a Senior Information Security Architect with 24 years of IT experience, specializing in PKI and certificate management at Venafi where he leads design, deployment, and production rollouts for enterprise customers. His career began running an ISP in New Zealand and evolved through systems administration, wireless and mobility security consulting, and senior roles at Accuvant and Optiv, giving him rare end-to-end operational perspective. Customer-focused and pragmatic, he excels at translating complex security and PKI concepts into practical, trusted solutions that keep critical infrastructures reliable. An open-source contributor and longtime release manager for the well-known GnuCash project, he brings disciplined release and documentation practices to security engineering. Based in Denver, he combines hands-on technical leadership with a passion for teaching others how emerging technologies can be applied safely and effectively.
24 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BA, BA at Victoria University of Wellington
English, German
Github Skills (2)
documentation10
release-management10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Gnucash/gnucash
Nov 2001 - Jul 2007
GnuCash Double-Entry Accounting Program.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer / Release Manager
Technical Writer / Release ManagerContributions:156 commits in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on updating the GnuCash software for various stable releases, including 1.6.6, 1.6.7, 1.6.8, 1.7.2, 1.8.2, 1.8.4, 1.8.5, 1.8.8, 1.8.9, 1.8.10, 1.8.11, and 1.8.12. These updates involved modifying the main program file (src/scm/main.scm) to reflect the latest version number in the software's informational messages. Additionally, the user removed and added documentation, updated help files, and incorporated patches. These contributions were mostly related to version maintenance and documentation.
accountingdouble-entry-accountingdoublegnucash
wilddev65/VenafiPS
Jul 2021 - Jan 2022
Automate your Venafi Trust Protection Platform and Venafi as a Service platforms!
Contributions:32 pushes, 3 branches in 6 months
platformsvenafitrustas-a-serviceautomation
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