Laurence Jones
DevRel at LJ Cyber Solutions
South Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolLaurence Jones is a DevRel and cybersecurity professional with eight years of hands-on experience spanning support, consulting, professional services leadership, and software development. Currently at Pangolin, he helps developers adopt products through education, community-building, and actionable feedback loops informed by real-world operational experience. Previously Head of Professional Services at CrowdSec, he contributed to open-source security tooling—working on backend and deployment automation for the well-known crowdsecurity/crowdsec project—and built scalable, KPI-driven operational processes. Comfortable in AWS and fluent in troubleshooting from first-line support to developer workflows, he combines pragmatic engineering with customer-centric problem solving. Outside roles he runs LJ Cyber Solutions, bringing consultancy smarts and a bias for security that works in production environments.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Level 3 competence in ICT, Computer Systems, Networking and Telecommunications, Level 3 competence in ICT, Computer Systems, Networking and Telecommunications at 3aaa ApprenticeshipsWeb Developer, Web Developer, Web Developer, Web Developer at Udemy Academy
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Github Skills (20)
go10
sec9
security9
linux9
it-security9
automation9
automations9
docker8
detector8
dockers8
detectors8
html6
iframe6
vuejs26
nodejs6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
crowdsecurity/crowdsec
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
CrowdSec - the open-source and participative security solution offering crowdsourced protection against malicious IPs and access to the most advanced real-world CTI.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:4 releases, 176 reviews, 16 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Laurence primarily contributed to the backend infrastructure and deployment aspects of the project. Their work includes implementing and configuring automated cronjobs for hub updates, adding support for database features such as MySQL and Postgres socket support, and enhancing the application with features like email HELO configuration. Furthermore, they implemented features for managing and automating deployment by adding the capabilities to prune bouncers and machines. These changes indicate a focus on improving system functionality and automating operational tasks.
protectadaptedipsctiintrusion-detection
LaurenceJJones/cs-firewall-bouncer
Jan 2023 - Sep 2024
Crowdsec bouncer written in golang for firewalls
Contributions:2 releases, 7 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 8 months
golangcrowdsec-bouncerbouncercrowdsecfirewalls
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