Florian Rüchel
Security Engineer at Canva
Adelaide, South Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolFlorian Rüchel is a security engineer and architect with a decade of hands-on experience designing and hardening cloud-native platforms, currently securing systems at Canva after five years at Atlassian. He combines deep academic grounding—a M.Sc. in IT Security with top marks—with practical expertise in AWS, threat modeling, risk analysis, and vulnerability management to build “secure by default” internal PaaS services. Comfortable coding in Python and shipping automation tools, he bridges engineering and security teams to deliver pragmatic controls that align with business needs. Early work in PKI, penetration testing and Linux server administration gives him a broad, systems-level perspective that informs scalable cloud security decisions.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), IT Security, 72%, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), IT Security, 72% at Ruhr University Bochum
English, German
Github Skills (59)
uwsgi10
aws-sdk10
aws10
privilege10
salesforce10
aws-security9
security9
python9
least-privilege9
iam-policy9
sdk9
cloud-security9
flask9
extensible9
pip8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
fruechel/cloudsplaining
Sep 2020 - Apr 2021
Cloudsplaining is an AWS IAM Security Assessment tool that identifies violations of least privilege and generates a risk-prioritized report.
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
least-privilegeviolationssecurityriskprivilege
asecurityteam/nexpose-client-python
Nov 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:7 pushes, 3 branches in 3 months
api-clientapinexposepythonclient-library
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