Gary Tate
Senior Application Security Engineer
Belfast Metropolitan Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGary Tate is a Senior Application Security Engineer with nearly a decade of hands-on experience blending application/product security and offensive security to harden cloud-native systems across AWS, GCP, and Azure. He has driven secure-by-design practices from architecture and threat modeling through CI/CD pipeline hardening and production readiness, supporting global engineering teams and benchmarking against standards like ASVS. Gary launched and scaled an internal offensive security program—leading penetration tests, red/purple team exercises, and measurable maturity metrics—to help teams proactively close gaps. His background includes securing high-profile government projects and embedding security into software assurance pipelines, giving him a strong operational and compliance lens. Based in Belfast, he’s passionate about bridging offensive and defensive approaches and is exploring emerging areas such as AI/LLM security testing.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science with Honours Information and Communication Technologies, Bachelor of Science with Honours Information and Communication Technologies at Ulster UniversityGithub contributions (2)
garytkainos/Gauntlt-Ubuntu
Jun 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:21 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
garytkainos/pony
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:1 branch in 1 day
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