Connor Wilson
IT Development Manager at 2plan wealth management Ltd
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolConnor Wilson is an IT Development Manager based in Leeds with 10 years of hands-on experience building and operationalizing secure, automated systems across finance and consultancy settings. He moved up from founding a web agency to senior engineering roles and now leads development for 2plan Wealth Management, blending full-stack .NET experience with DevOps and automation strengths. A BSc in Forensic Computing & Security underpins a practical focus on secure deployments, evidenced by contributions to SecGen where he streamlined build and Puppet configurations for reproducible vulnerable VM environments. Colleagues rely on his clear communication, deadline discipline, and ability to rally teams under pressure while maintaining high professional standards. He brings a rare combination of client-facing empathy and low-level automation skill—comfortable both designing web services and improving CI/CD and infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Forensic Computing & Security, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Forensic Computing & Security at Leeds Beckett UniversityBTEC IT Practitioners (Software Development), BTEC IT Practitioners (Software Development) at Darlington College
Github Skills (14)
configuration-management10
automation10
puppeteer10
automations10
vagrant10
puppet10
build-automation10
scripting9
shell9
script9
sh9
ruby8
dockers7
docker7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
SecGen/SecGen
Feb 2016 - Jun 2016
Generate vulnerable virtual machines on the fly (current team development is taking place in the cliffe/SecGen fork)
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:35 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Connor's primary focus revolved around modifying and improving the infrastructure and build processes of the project. They made changes to the puppet configuration files to streamline the build process by creating and moving puppet files into specific directories, updated the Vagrantfile, and addressed environment-related issues. Their contributions involved modifying build scripts and the overall directory structure, suggesting a strong emphasis on automation and efficient deployment of the vulnerable virtual machines. Furthermore, the user enhanced the build configuration.
placevulnerablemachinessecurityvirtual-machines
Aviio/WebGen
Dec 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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