Gerald Benischke
Principal Security Platform Engineer
South Ribble, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGerald Benischke is a Principal Security Platform Engineer and seasoned software consultant with nearly 30 years of experience delivering pragmatic, secure systems across public sector, finance and telecoms. He blends hands-on architecture and platform work with people leadership, having moved from building middle-tier services and security automation to leading engineering teams and fostering psychological safety. A self-described Agile Fundamentalist and "AppSec Snooper", Gerald champions shifting security left—making secure practices approachable, automatable and tightly integrated with development. His background spans cloud migrations, payment and rewards systems, SRE/DevOps, and supply-chain vulnerability mitigation for organisations like HMRC, MoneySuperMarket and Ooredoo FinTech. Known for prioritising small, practical steps over grand processes, he treats engineering as largely social work supported by technical craft. Based in South Ribble, England, he runs his consultancy Software Design Systems Ltd while holding senior platform and contracting roles.
8 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Software Engineering, BSc Computer Software Engineering at Liverpool John Moores University
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Github contributions (5)
beny23/beny23.github.io
Jun 2020 - Feb 2023
Contributions:1 review, 83 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 7 months
beny23/static-distance
Jul 2020 - Aug 2021
Contributions:158 commits, 10 PRs, 82 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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