Ken Mcdonald
Founder & Principal Strategic Technology Practice
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKen Mcdonald is a security-focused technology leader with 20+ years of experience building and scaling cloud-native SaaS and DevSecOps platforms, currently leading security product at Hashgraph from Toronto. He founded and exited Custodela to Checkmarx, then drove product integration and revenue expansion as Chief Architect and Distinguished Software Architect, blending entrepreneurial grit with enterprise product delivery. Ken has repeatedly moved organizations from manual to automated security—cutting vulnerability detection from weeks to hours—by embedding SAST/SCA into CI/CD and building DevSecOps automation. He combines deep hands-on engineering (Java, Python, CI/CD integrations) with strategic GRC and compliance wins, including securing executive approval for major SIEM investments. Known for pragmatic collaboration with CIOs/CISOs and vendor partnerships, he translates security strategy into adoptable engineering programs that scale.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computing Computing and Information Science, Psychology, Bachelor of Computing Computing and Information Science, Psychology at University of Guelph
Github Skills (41)
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circleci-orb6
kubernetes6
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
CxRepositories/cx-flow
Jan 2019 - Sep 2020
Contributions:44 releases, 86 PRs, 120 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Custodela/NodeGoat
Sep 2018 - Nov 2023
The OWASP NodeGoat project provides an environment to learn how OWASP Top 10 security risks apply to web applications developed using Node.js and how to effectively address them.
Contributions:9 PRs, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
web-applicationsnode-jssecurityjavascriptaddress
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