Cole Dishington
Senior Software Engineer at Phocas Software
Canterbury, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolCole Dishington is a Senior Software Engineer with six years of full-stack experience building customer-focused solutions and integrating AI into production products. He combines rapid prototyping skills in Node.js and Python with pragmatic engineering—having adapted a large C# monolith for AI features and mined ML-ready insights for distributors. A hands-on mentor and cross-functional communicator, he has driven cloud container work for NGFW routers across Azure, Oracle, and Linode and led international update services that span multiple departments. His academic background in computer science security and mathematics underpins a methodical approach to reliability and maintainability, while his habit of experimenting with emerging AI tooling has repeatedly accelerated product discovery and delivery.
6 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science focusing on Security, Master's degree Computer Science focusing on Security at University of Canterbury
Github Skills (23)
ips10
threat-hunting10
suricata10
cybersecurity10
git-repository10
verification10
network-monitoring10
security10
network-security10
ids10
intrusion-detection10
testing9
lxc6
feed6
kernel-module6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
coledishington/apteryx
May 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:15 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 11 months
coledishington/nat46
Jun 2020 - Aug 2024
OpenWRT feed with stateless NAT46 kernel module
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 1 month
kernelstatelessopenwrt-feedzonesopenwrt
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