Niall Newman
Solutions Architect Lead Developer at Turaco Labs - ThreatView
Devizes, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNiall Newman is a Solutions Architect and Lead Developer with nine years of experience blending security-focused incident response and hands-on software engineering. Based in Devizes, England, he progressed from malware reverse engineering and PCI forensic support at Foregenix to leading architecture and development at Turaco Labs - ThreatView. He brings practical expertise in threat intelligence, threat hunting, and building robust backend systems, with notable open-source contributions to the Go rule engine grule-rule-engine where he added variadic method support, JSON rule formats, and fixes for parser goroutine leaks and integer overflows. Niall is comfortable translating complex security requirements into auditable, production-ready systems and mentoring teams through that transformation. Colleagues value his combination of deep technical troubleshooting skills and an engineer’s mindset for long-term reliability. An independent learner since university, he pairs curiosity with a focus on resilient, secure engineering practices.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Independant
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Github Skills (8)
golang10
engine10
go10
antlr10
rule-engine10
json9
windows6
localization6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
hyperjumptech/grule-rule-engine
Jun 2020 - Jul 2021
Rule engine implementation in Golang
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 15 reviews, 8 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Niall primarily contributed to the core functionality of the grule-rule-engine project. They implemented support for variadic method calls and handled escaped string constants within the rule parsing process. Furthermore, the user added support for JSON format rules, enabling flexible rule definition. They also addressed potential goroutine leaks and integer overflows in the ANTLR parser, enhancing the engine's robustness.
golanginference-enginebusiness-rulesruledeclarative-programming
foregenix/casbin-enforcers
Mar 2020 - May 2024
Contributions:9 pushes, 8 tags in 4 years 3 months
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