Jonathan Merriweather
Acting Cyber Security Lead at Yarra City Council
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolJonathan Merriweather is an acting Cyber Security Lead in Melbourne with 12 years of IT experience driving infrastructure transformation, cyber resilience, and service-focused outcomes across local government and education. He has progressed through hands-on roles from systems and network engineering to leading IT strategy, security operations, incident response and hybrid cloud architecture at Yarra City Council. Known for pragmatic vendor governance and ITIL-aligned service management, he blends strategic planning with deep technical experience in networking, identity, and disaster recovery. Jonathan has a track record of delivering large-scale migrations and secure BYOD and 802.1X deployments in complex environments, and he champions sustainability and future-ready architectures. Colleagues describe him as a collaborative leader who builds inclusive, high-performing teams that translate technical capability into better community services. He also brings a developer’s mindset—having built automation and management tooling earlier in his career—which informs his focus on measurable operational improvement.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Certificate of Information Technology Leadership, Information Technology, Graduate Certificate of Information Technology Leadership, Information Technology at Deakin UniversityAdvanced Diploma, Computer Systems Engineering, Advanced Diploma, Computer Systems Engineering at Box Hill Institute of TAFE
Github Skills (129)
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
jmerriweather/ueberauth_adfs
Mar 2018 - Feb 2019
ADFS Strategy for Überauth
Contributions:11 commits, 3 PRs, 4 pushes in 10 months
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jmerriweather/nerves_io_pn532
Dec 2016 - Apr 2019
Contributions:34 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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