Michael Thorson
Principal at Magni Cybersecurity Consulting
North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolMichael Thorson is a seasoned information security and IT operations leader with over two decades of experience designing, auditing, and hardening systems across healthcare, higher education, legal, and private sectors in North America. He has led large technology organizations—managing budgets of tens of millions and teams of 200+—and built shared-service clouds, lifecycle management, and SOC-integrated security programs that reduced costs and improved uptime. As a Principal at Magni Cybersecurity Consulting he now helps SMBs prioritize cybersecurity risk and remediate vulnerabilities with pragmatic, business-aligned plans. His background combines deep technical skills in penetration testing, forensics, identity management and OT environments with executive-level governance, policy, and strategic roadmap development. Notably, he pairs an Executive MBA with hands-on infrastructure accomplishments (including delivering a community cloud at UBC and major EMR availability gains at Mayo Clinic), enabling him to translate technical risk into measurable business outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Business, Bachelor's degree Business at Saint Leo UniversityExecutive MBA Business Administration and Management General, Executive MBA Business Administration and Management General at Simon Fraser University
Github Skills (18)
dotnet10
openal10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
game-engine9
cross-platform9
ide9
game-development9
2d9
beef9
2d-game8
engine8
opengl8
programming-language7
usability7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
MaddyThorson/StrawberryBF
May 2020 - Dec 2021
A tiny 2D game engine focused on usability and simplicity.
Contributions:137 commits, 2 PRs, 123 pushes in 1 year 8 months
2d-gameusabilitygamedevtiny2d-game-engine
JamesMcMahon/monocle-engine
Dec 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:131 commits in 11 months
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