Grant Slender
Chief Information Security Officer
Greater Brisbane Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolGrant Slender is a seasoned Chief Information Security Officer with 13+ years leading technology, security and risk functions across financial and public sector organisations in Australia. He combines hands‑on software development experience and open-source contributions—particularly front-end improvements to the popular gwtbootstrap3 project—with deep expertise in enterprise architecture, information risk and security governance. Grant has repeatedly built and scaled teams responsible for strategy, operations and secure delivery, having held senior roles from Head of Technology to Group Manager and CISO at institutions like QIC and Bank of Queensland. He holds a Bachelor in Information Technology and a Postgraduate Diploma of Business, and brings a practitioner’s view of the full software lifecycle informed by earlier Microsoft/Novell engineering and instructor credentials. Known for translating complex regulatory and technical constraints into pragmatic, auditable controls, he blends strategic leadership with an engineer’s attention to usability and form-level UI details.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bach I.T., Information Technology, Bach I.T., Information Technology at CQUniversityHargravesPostgraduate Diploma of Business, Business Administration and Management, General, Postgraduate Diploma of Business, Business Administration and Management, General at University of Southern Queensland
Github Skills (8)
uid10
bootstra10
gwt10
front-end-development10
bootstrap10
ui-design10
javascript8
html7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
gwtbootstrap3/gwtbootstrap3
Dec 2013 - Mar 2014
GWT wrapper for the Bootstrap front-end framework
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Grant contributed to the GWTBootstrap3 repository by implementing and reverting features related to form values and boolean handling within the CheckBox and CheckableInputButton components. They also added and removed JSNI methods for input value management. Further commits fixed issues and added features like setting and getting methods and action attributes to forms. These changes suggest a focus on improving form elements and user interface interactions within the Bootstrap framework.
bootstrap4front-endbootstrapgwtfront-end-framework
gslender/hubitat
May 2021 - Feb 2023
Contributions:1 review, 39 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 9 months
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