Coleton Pierson
Head Of Security Architecture at Agoda
Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand
Summary
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Top SchoolColeton Pierson is a strategic security leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling enterprise cloud security programs, currently serving as Head of Security Architecture at Agoda in Bangkok. He has led security transformations affecting 2,500+ engineers, pioneered Zero Trust implementations across hybrid clouds, and translated compliance frameworks (NIST, MITRE ATT&CK, PCI, SOX, GDPR) into practical governance and engineering practices. Known for reducing incidents while accelerating developer velocity, he combines hands-on technical delivery—SOAR, security automation, ML-based analysis pipelines—with organizational coaching and cross-team compliance liaison work. An early practitioner of cloud-native security product design, he has repeatedly moved teams from assessment and tooling to productionized architectures that protect millions of daily users.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
English, German, Spanish
Github Skills (77)
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infrastructure-management8
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python8
infrastructure8
security8
risk-analysis8
pdf-generation8
hardening8
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package-repository7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rfizzle/zsh_config
Feb 2015 - Jan 2023
Contributions:39 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years
rfizzle/log-collector
Oct 2020 - Dec 2021
Contributions:87 commits, 66 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 1 month
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