Chris Smith
Senior Software Engineer, SecOps at Slack
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Smith is a Senior Software Engineer in SecOps with 14 years of hands-on experience blending offensive security, infrastructure engineering, and pragmatic product-focused controls. He built early security practices at companies like Fly.io—leading SIEM, osquery endpoint monitoring, eBPF observability, and GPU hypervisor research—and now secures infrastructure at Slack. A former penetration tester and consultant, he excels at translating adversary tradecraft into right-sized, automatable defenses and incident workflows for both small teams and large organisations. Comfortable shipping code and low-level research, he often combines engineering rigor with operational empathy to let users share responsibility for security. Based in Auckland, he has a track record of growing security programs from first principles while staying deeply technical.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Massey University
Github Skills (38)
accessory8
homebridge7
homekit7
gitlab6
logging6
cli6
aws6
lint6
threat-hunting6
security6
rust5
linter5
serverless5
bitbucket5
code-review5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
chrismsnz/cv
Mar 2012 - Aug 2012
Contributions:14 commits in 5 months
chrismsnz/dotvim
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:5 pushes in 1 day
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