Ian Havelock
Cyber Security Technical Lead at HSBC
Darlington, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Havelock is a Cyber Security Technical Lead with 12 years of software and security experience, currently driving security engineering at HSBC from a strong development background. He is a fast, autodidactic learner who ships production systems in Python, FastAPI, Django and PHP, and has a long track record of rebuilding and modernising web applications and cloud services across banking and enterprise environments. Ian blends hands‑on coding with security ownership, having progressed from development and support roles into cloud and security engineering at Barclays and HSBC, and led ISO 27001 efforts and product rewrites in the charity sector. He regularly contributes to open source projects and builds internal tooling that improves reliability and observability, skills honed while operating high‑volume message systems and Zabbix monitoring at Vix. Based in Darlington, he combines practical engineering, compliance-minded security leadership, and a knack for turning legacy systems into scalable, auditable platforms.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Electronic Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Waltham Forest CollegeElectrical and Electronics Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Cheadle Hulme High School
English
Github Skills (83)
font-size10
flexbox10
api10
api-rest10
dropdown10
lists10
popup10
open-source10
tooltip10
tooltips9
fomantic-ui9
semantic9
depth9
pihole8
gcp8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Morrolan/surrealism
Aug 2013 - Dec 2021
Contributions:162 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 4 months
sentencepythonmessage-generatorerror-messagepython3
Morrolan/PastebinAPI
Feb 2014 - Apr 2021
Contributions:1 review, 16 commits, 4 PRs in 7 years 2 months
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