Nick Jones
CISO at International Personal Finance Plc
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Jones is a CISO with 13+ years of security and risk leadership experience, currently securing International Personal Finance after transformative CISO roles at TUI and major consulting engagements. He has repeatedly reduced enterprise risk at scale—most notably restructuring security functions, deploying MFA and endpoint protection across 50,000 devices, and averting a potential £250m breach. Nick builds capability end-to-end: launching SOCs and incident automation, creating security engineering pipelines, and training 800+ developers while also delivering measurable identity risk reductions for large airlines. A chartered accountant by training, he combines financial rigour with technical depth and practical hands-on contributions to open-source backend projects like django-cms. Recognised among the top 100 Global CISOs in 2022, he remains active in CISO governing bodies and industry forums and co-founded Metatalent.ai to mentor the next generation of security and engineering talent.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Chartered Accountant Accountancy, Chartered Accountant Accountancy at Institite of Chartered Accountants - ZimbabweA Levels Maths Chemistry Biology Technical Drawing, A Levels Maths Chemistry Biology Technical Drawing at Christian Brothers CollegeB Comm Accountancy Commercial Law, B Comm Accountancy Commercial Law at Rhodes University
Github Skills (7)
user-authentication10
authentication10
cms10
backend10
python10
back-end-development10
django10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
django-cms/django-cms
Jun 2013 - Aug 2013
The easy-to-use and developer-friendly enterprise CMS powered by Django
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:21 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily contributed to the backend of the django-cms project. Their commits focused on modifying models, specifically related to the `auth_user_model`, fixing issues with user changelists, and updating code for a custom authentication user model. They also made changes to the cms toolbar and admin files, reflecting their involvement in the core functionality of the CMS backend. These changes suggest they were working to improve user management and authentication within the CMS.
cmsdjangopythondjango-cms
HiddenClever/digitalocean-dns-sync
Jan 2015 - Sep 2021
Python script to synchronise the DNS records from any server running BIND with DigitalOcean's DNS servers.
Contributions:1 review, 119 commits, 3 PRs in 6 years 8 months
digitaloceandnsdns-recordpython
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