Matt Flannery
Associate Director Of Offensive Security
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Flannery is an experienced cybersecurity and DevSecOps leader with 11 years building scalable, secure systems across enterprise and startup environments in Australia. Currently Associate Director of Offensive Security at Service NSW and Technical Lead for CNCF's Security TAG, he blends hands-on engineering (Kubernetes, Python, Go, JS) with program-level delivery—having established DevSecOps functions, secure software factories and automation across hundreds of products and containers. He’s founded and sold cloud/container security firms, co-founded a security SaaS tackling API risks with AI/ML, and runs one of Sydney’s largest DevSecOps communities, showing a strong maker-operator-founder mindset. Comfortable advising C-suite stakeholders while shipping automated SAST/SCA/DAST/RASP and threat-modelling programs, he’s equally at home hacking on backend systems and designing security architecture. Notably, he leads both offensive security and community initiatives, combining practical red-team perspective with deep ecosystem influence.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma Networking Engineering, Diploma Networking Engineering at Ourimbah TAFEJavascript, Javascript at General AssemblyCompTIA A+CCNA Cisco Certified Networking Associate, CCNA Cisco Certified Networking Associate at Cisco
Github Skills (59)
command-line-interface10
amazon-web-services10
aws10
aws-cli10
instagram9
security9
access-control9
script9
docker8
cloud-native8
kali-linux8
selenium8
vulnerability7
golang7
ingress7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
matthewflannery/sig-security
Apr 2021 - Aug 2024
🔐CNCF Special Interest Group on Security -- secure access, policy control, privacy, auditing, explainability and more!
Contributions:3 pushes in 3 years 4 months
policysecureprivacy-enhancing-technologiesprivacyinterest-group
matthewflannery/www-project-devsecops-verification-standard
Mar 2022 - Oct 2023
OWASP Foundation Web Respository
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
owasp
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