Christopher Beckett
Security Engineering Manager - Security Incident Management & Digital Forensics at Google
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolChristopher Beckett is a Security Engineering Manager based in Sydney with 14 years of experience leading incident response, digital forensics and enterprise security programs at scale, currently heading Security Incident Management & Digital Forensics at Google. He has built and run security teams and compliance programs across fast-growing companies like BigCommerce and Deputy, securing billions in transaction value and driving PCI-DSS and governance outcomes. A former software engineer and engineering leader, he brings strong hands-on technical chops—secure code auditing, exploit development, and platform incident response—paired with pragmatic, defense-in-depth thinking. Christopher also contributes to open-source back-end projects, demonstrating a willingness to dig into APIs and user-facing fixes, and holds a Master’s in Information Technology from UNSW.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
UNSW Sydney
English
Github Skills (7)
api-rest10
rest-api10
api-design10
restful-api10
coffeescript9
html8
github7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
tomdionysus/foaas
Jul 2013 - Jul 2013
FOAAS (Fuck Off As A Service) provides a modern, RESTful, scalable solution to the common problem of telling people to fuck off.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 7 days
Contributions summary:Christopher focused on adding new endpoints and modifying the existing ones for the FOAAS API. They introduced a new endpoint with a specific use case related to swear words. Additionally, the user made minor frontend modifications to update the index page, including adding links to the project's Twitter and GitHub repository. A typo was corrected as well.
scalablejsrestfuljavascriptnetsuite
xenph/ignition
Apr 2012 - May 2015
Contributions:74 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 3 years 1 month
reactinternalbountiesinternal-projectkickstarter
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