Florian Noeding
Principal Security Architect at Adobe
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFlorian Noeding is a Principal Security Architect at Adobe with 12 years of experience blending hands-on engineering and security leadership to operationalize shift-left practices across large product teams. He leads product security for policy, training, secure-by-design, threat modeling and automated code review (SCA, SAST), while prioritizing developer experience and pragmatic, holistic solutions. Florian’s background spans research and product roles at Adobe and earlier security-focused engineering leadership at gateprotect, giving him deep expertise in embedded and cloud-ready security controls. An active contributor to open-source infrastructure—having enhanced HashiCorp Packer’s null builder and Amazon builder integrations—he brings practical DevOps insight to security automation. Trained as a Wirtschaftsphysiker from the University of Ulm, he combines quantitative thinking with real-world software and security craftsmanship in the Bay Area.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom Wirtschaftsphysik (Dipl.-Phys. oec.), Diplom Wirtschaftsphysik (Dipl.-Phys. oec.) at University of Ulm
English, German
Github Skills (6)
go10
ssh10
devops9
templating9
aws8
cicd7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/packer
Mar 2014 - Jul 2015
Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:6 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Florian contributed to the `packer` project by implementing the "null" builder, which sets up an SSH connection and runs provisioners without creating an image, useful for debugging. They also added support for templating within the null builder and Amazon builders, enhancing flexibility. Additionally, the user made changes to the Amazon builders, specifically focusing on user data handling and password retrieval for WinRM.
vagrantplatformslinuxpackerdocker
hashicorp/packer-plugin-amazon
Mar 2014 - Jul 2015
Packer plugin for Amazon AMI Builder
Contributions:4 commits in 1 year 4 months
origamiamazonpackerbuilderpacker-plugin
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