Luke Blaney
Cyber Security Director at Financial Times
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolLuke Blaney is a Cyber Security Director in London with 13 years of experience blending hands-on engineering, platform architecture and security leadership at the Financial Times. He’s built and led cross-functional teams that unified cyber risk, IT governance and security engineering, while earlier roles saw him architect monitoring, reliability and cloud migration efforts across large-scale publishing systems. Technically fluent in DevOps and automation, he has contributed to the popular voxpupuli/puppet-zabbix module by broadening OS support and improving database and dependency handling for diverse Debian and Raspberry Pi environments. Known for turning operational complexity into repeatable, API-driven tooling, he pairs strong stakeholder engagement with an engineer’s attention to deployment and observability detail. His background in computer science and physics underpins a pragmatic approach to secure, reliable platforms for high-velocity media operations.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Computer Science and Physics, BSc (Hons) Computer Science and Physics at The University of EdinburghHigh School Irish Maths Physics & Chemistry, High School Irish Maths Physics & Chemistry at Lagan College
Irish, English
Github Skills (8)
puppet-bolt10
puppeteer10
puppet10
postgresql9
ruby8
devops7
automations7
automation7
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
voxpupuli/puppet-zabbix
Dec 2014 - Dec 2014
Puppet module for creating and maintaining zabbix components with puppet.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits in 11 days
Contributions summary:Luke focused on enhancing the module's support for different operating systems and configurations. Their contributions included modifying the PostgreSQL database setup, enabling remote database configurations, and adding support for Debian-based systems, specifically addressing repository configuration for Raspberry Pi architectures. The user also addressed the installation dependencies for the `zabbixapi` gem across different Debian releases.
windows-puppet-modulepuppetpuppet-modulelinux-puppet-modulezabbix
lucas42/lukeblaney_cv
Apr 2017 - Mar 2025
Source for my curriculum vitae
Contributions:2 PRs, 26 pushes, 5 branches in 8 years
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