Jim Cheetham
Security Specialist at OneRNG
Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand
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Top SchoolJim Cheetham is a pragmatic Information Security specialist with 12+ years of hands-on experience in incident response, risk reduction and operational security, currently serving as Security Specialist at Modica Group and organising Dunedin’s public ISIG meetings. He combines deep Unix and networking expertise—including TCP/IPv4 to near-ISP peering level—with ITIL-driven operations architecture to produce practical, auditable security and process solutions. Jim co-created OneRNG, applying core security principles to trustworthy hardware entropy generation, highlighting his focus on real-world cryptographic hygiene beyond software. His background spans academia to enterprise, running border monitors, IDS/IPS and service architecture at the University of Otago and consulting on secure transport and managed services across the APAC region. Based in Dunedin, he specialises in Libre/Open Source solutions and often operates just-above-the-kernel, marrying low-level technical skill with operational leadership.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc(Hons), Information Systems Design, B.Sc(Hons), Information Systems Design at Kingston University
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Github Skills (164)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
OneRNG/onerng.github.io
Dec 2013 - Feb 2017
Contributions:95 commits, 43 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 2 months
jimcheetham/alda-lca2016mmm
Jan 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:12 commits, 3 PRs, 7 pushes in 5 days
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