Summary
David Latham is a DevSecOps Lead based in Auckland with 13 years of hands-on experience building and operating production delivery pipelines and associated tooling. He has progressed from Linux engineering and application support into leadership roles across payments and healthcare platforms, consistently focusing on safe, secure, and reliable delivery. At AMP New Zealand he leads DevSecOps practices, drawing on prior roles as Principal DevOps Engineer and Continuous Delivery lead to bridge engineering, operations and security. He’s practical with Red Hat/Linux stacks and platform operations for high-availability, PCI-compliant systems—skills rooted in an early career managing CAD/IT environments, which gave him a disciplined, process-oriented approach. Known for translating complex operational requirements into maintainable pipelines, he balances strategic leadership with deep technical ownership.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Redhat Linux Enterprise Linux Engineer, Certificate, Redhat Linux Enterprise Linux Engineer at Aldhouse
NDIP Architectural Technology, Architectural Technology, NDIP Architectural Technology, Architectural Technology at Technikon Natal