Michael Patton
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Summary
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SeniorMichael Patton is a Security Engineer focused on DevOps with a decade of hands-on experience building and supporting cloud-native and production systems from Tasmania. He spent four years at AWS as a Cloud Support Engineer and previously progressed through Linux, SRE, and application support roles at Amadeus, giving him deep operational expertise across Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, and hybrid on‑prem/public cloud environments. Now applying that background to cybersecurity at VIT/Excite Cyber, he blends incident response, platform hardening, and automation to make systems resilient and auditable. His career began in telecoms operations and network surveillance, which informs a disciplined, metrics-driven approach to root cause analysis and proactive alerting. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions that bridge low-level systems knowledge with cloud-scale security practices.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (123)
epub10
wireguard10
vpn-client10
openvpn10
calibre10
docker10
pia10
oauth10
letsencrypt9
mobi9
vpn9
golang9
go-language9
pgp9
reverse-proxy9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
mpatton125/onionscan
Jul 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 12 pushes in 7 months
docker-imagedockerdocker-container
mpatton125/audioserve
Nov 2018 - Jan 2019
Simple personal server to serve audiofiles files from folders. Intended primarily for audio books, but anything with decent folder structure will do.
Contributions:4 PRs, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
servepersonal-serveraudiodecentfolder-structure
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