Lee Brotherston
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Cribl
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolLee Brotherston is a Senior Staff Software Engineer and seasoned information security leader with 11+ years of experience building security programs across startups and multinational enterprises. He has repeatedly founded and scaled security teams—most recently as Founding Security Engineer at OpsHelm and now at Cribl—bringing hands-on expertise in automation, incident response, risk analysis, and secure product development. Lee’s background spans Technology, Financial Services, Entertainment, Hospitality and Retail, giving him rare fluency in translating technical risk to business leaders and developers alike. He’s known for building pragmatic tooling and proactive monitoring to shift organizations from reactive to security-first cultures, and for producing clear, high-quality documentation for diverse audiences. A former director at ecobee and Wealthsimple, he blends strategic leadership with deep technical craft, including forensic and vulnerability program experience. Based in Canada, Lee combines the mindset of a builder and advisor—comfortable presenting at conferences and stepping into CISO-style roles when needed.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), Media Technology, BSc (Hons), Media Technology at Teesside University
Github Skills (107)
programming-language10
authentication10
interpreter10
sms10
security10
ruby10
fingerprinting10
auth10
golang10
compiler10
goplus10
go10
factor10
odin10
2factor10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
LeeBrotherston/keystroke-recorder
Feb 2018 - Feb 2021
record keystrokes as json
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 11 months
recordjsonkeystrokes
LeeBrotherston/snort
Jan 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:17 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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