Lachlan Dufton
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolLachlan Dufton is a senior software engineer with 14 years of experience building globally distributed, million-QPS services and currently contributing at Microsoft after a long tenure at Google. He combines deep technical leadership with a PhD in artificial intelligence from the University of Waterloo, bringing research rigor to production-grade systems. Comfortable across teams, roles, and time zones, he focuses on designing maintainable, reliable software and mentoring peers as a technical lead. His open-source work includes security-focused contributions to Forseti Security, adding rules engines and improving inventory crawlers to analyze cloud audit logs without org-level access. Based in Vancouver, he blends cloud security expertise with large-scale backend engineering, often surfacing practical solutions informed by academic research.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B. Engineering, Software Engineering, 1st Class Honours, University Medal, B. Engineering, Software Engineering, 1st Class Honours, University Medal at The University of QueenslandPhD, Artificial Intelligence, PhD, Artificial Intelligence at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (10)
gcp10
it-security10
google-cloud-platform10
python10
security10
security-txt9
security-scan9
api8
apidoc8
testing7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
forseti-security/forseti-security
Apr 2018 - Mar 2019
Forseti Security
Role in this project:
Back-end & Security Engineer
Back-end & Security EngineerContributions:13 commits, 13 PRs, 2 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Lachlan primarily contributed to the security features of the Forseti Security project, focusing on cloud audit logging and enabled APIs. Their work included the creation of rules engines for analyzing cloud audit logging configurations and enabled APIs, which involved significant code changes and additions of rule configurations. Additionally, the user worked on improving the inventory crawler, allowing it to run without requiring access to the organization.
gcpsecurity-toolsforseti-securitysecuritygoogle-cloud-platform
dufton/forseti-security
Feb 2018 - Mar 2019
Forseti Security
Contributions:8 PRs, 63 pushes, 31 branches in 1 year
securityforseti-security
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