Patrick Dwyer
Principal Consultant Application Security
Queensland, Australia
Summary
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RockstarPatrick Dwyer is a Principal Consultant in Application Security with 25 years of software engineering and security experience, now helping customers at CyberCX while co-leading the OWASP CycloneDX SBOM standard ratified as ECMA-424. He uniquely combines hands-on secure development—contributing code and tooling across languages like C#, Java, Python and building features for popular repos such as dotnet-outdated—with strategic influence in standards bodies as an elected member of the Ecma International Executive Committee. Patrick has led product security at global scale, driving threat modeling, secure design reviews, and supply-chain transparency for enterprise platforms and governments. He has guided CycloneDX from open-source project to internationally adopted standard, delivering features for vulnerability transparency, AI/ML provenance, and post-quantum readiness. Equally at home writing code or advising executives, he also brings community leadership experience from volunteer governance in education and public-sector digital transformation.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (19)
nuget10
dotnet-core10
netcore10
csharp10
json9
command-line-tool9
testing8
architecture7
architectures7
namespaces6
azure6
asp-net6
entity-framework6
code-organization6
geoserver6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
dotnet-outdated/dotnet-outdated
Oct 2018 - Dec 2021
A .NET Core global tool to display and update outdated NuGet packages in a project
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 227 commits, 164 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Patrick implemented several key features for the .NET Core global tool, including an option to return a non-zero exit code when updates are found. They added a new `DependencyUpgradeSeverity` enum to categorize the severity of package updates and refactored the output to utilize this. The user also added the functionality to generate JSON and text reports, enhancing the tool's reporting capabilities.
dotnetglobal-tooldotnet-clinuget-packagesnet-core
CycloneDX/cyclonedx-cli
Oct 2020 - Oct 2022
CycloneDX CLI tool for SBOM analysis, merging, diffs and format conversions.
Contributions:8 reviews, 307 commits, 178 PRs in 2 years
package-urlspdxclivexobom
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