Eddie Knight
Founder at FINOS
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolEddie Knight is a founder and open source security leader with nine years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure, developer advocacy, and compliance tooling from banks to foundations. Based in Austin, he has led SRE and Azure automation at Morgan Stanley, drove open source initiatives for Sonatype’s OSPO, and now runs a stealth startup while chairing/maintaining security/compliance efforts across CNCF, OpenSSF, and FINOS. He combines hands-on Python and IaC engineering with program-level coordination—improving Azure Landing Zone delivery times and rolling out reusable compliant pipelines. Eddie is a prolific maintainer and working-group lead on security baselines and specifications, bringing rare cross-sector perspective between finance, foundation governance, and vendor OSPO practices. His background in history and political science informs a pragmatic, policy-aware approach to open source governance and risk. Colleagues know him for translating complex compliance requirements into reusable automation and community-driven standards.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of Texas at San AntonioAssociate of Arts (A.A.), Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies, Associate of Arts (A.A.), Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies at Northwest Vista College
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
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k8s10
argoproj10
jsonnet10
iteration10
dokku10
auditing10
privacy10
batch-processing10
devsecops10
argocd10
controls10
hosting10
kustomize10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
finos/common-cloud-controls
Oct 2023 - Mar 2025
FINOS Common Cloud Controls
Contributions:300 reviews, 174 PRs, 154 pushes in 1 year 5 months
bankingcloudcybersecurityfinancial-services-cloudfinos
eddie-knight/common-cloud-controls
Oct 2023 - Mar 2025
FINOS Common Cloud Controls
Contributions:127 pushes, 54 branches in 1 year 5 months
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