Daniel Budden
Senior Security Engineer - Red Team at Canva
Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Budden is a Senior Security Engineer and software-focused red teamer with 11 years’ experience building resilient identity and access platforms for high-scale SaaS—most recently owning Tier Zero systems at Canva across AWS and GCP. He combines deep backend engineering in Golang and infrastructure-as-code with frontend fluency in Typescript/React to deliver multi-region, zero-trust services that keep internal security controls reliable and usable. Daniel’s background spans full-stack roles and technical leadership at Envato and startups, giving him a practical blend of product-minded engineering, cloud architecture, and application security. Trained originally as a mechanical/structural engineer and holding a Master of Computer Science, he brings a systems-thinking approach and a taste for new tech (from Rust to WebAssembly) when hardening critical systems.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Science, Master of Computer Science at University of New England (AU)Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Mechanical Engineering at University of Newcastle
Github Skills (22)
nodejs5
typescript4
genetic4
event-driven4
event-sourcing4
genetic-algorithm3
bower3
npm-package2
docker2
npm2
react2
material-ui1
mui1
kubernetes1
javascript1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
d3spis3d/generator-angular-es6-webpack
Oct 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:9 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
d3spis3d/na-streamer
Nov 2015 - Mar 2020
Streaming audio with Node.js
Contributions:3 releases, 14 PRs, 132 pushes in 4 years 4 months
node-jsjavascriptstreamingaudionodejs
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