Michael Hough
Security Focal at IBM
Southampton, England, United Kingdom
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolMichael Hough is a seasoned computer scientist and software engineer with 11 years’ experience building and securing cloud-native services at IBM, currently serving as Security Focal for IBM Cloud Container Registry. He blends hands-on development in Kubernetes and Istio-based microservices with audit-focused compliance work—owning SOC2/PCI evidence gathering and shaping secure-by-design features across multi-region production deployments. Comfortable moving between code, architecture and auditor conversations, he ensures security policy deviations are tracked and remediated while acting as the primary liaison for compliance and management. Based in Southampton, he brings practical DevOps discipline from his long-running registry work and a curiosity for new ways of working that keeps him tuned into evolving cloud trends. An early background across testing, documentation and support gives him a pragmatic, cross-functional perspective that helps bridge engineering, ops and governance.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Borden Grammar SchoolBSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at University of Surrey
English, Spanish, british sign language
Github Skills (40)
notary10
controller10
trust10
kubernetes9
cli8
database8
sdk-nodejs8
strings8
ibm-cloud8
redis8
docker-cli7
nosql7
lists7
in-memory7
key-value7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
molepigeon/zshrc
Mar 2020 - Apr 2024
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
IBM/container-registry-python-sdk
Mar 2021 - Jul 2024
Python SDK for the IBM Cloud Container Registry service.
Contributions:1 review, 6 PRs, 11 pushes in 3 years 3 months
pythonservice-registryibm-cloudsdkibm
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.