Paul English
Chief Executive Officer at PreOS-Security
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul English is a seasoned IT leader and CEO with nine years of formal experience focused on high-performance computing, distributed systems, and firmware security. He has led SRE/DevOps and infrastructure automation efforts using Terraform, Python, Ansible, and Kubernetes across on-prem HPC clusters and AWS, supporting demanding numerical weather simulation and ML workloads. As IT Director and manager he saved organizations millions through automation, open-source tooling, and cost-optimized cloud strategies while overseeing teams of engineers. He founded PreOS Security to bring firmware security consulting and tooling to enterprise endpoints, combining hands-on technical depth with product-minded leadership. A long-time volunteer organizer and board member in the system administration community, he pairs public speaking and nonprofit leadership with practical operational experience. Based in Seattle, he is notable for bridging low-level firmware security work with large-scale HPC operations—an uncommon cross-section in infrastructure leaders.
9 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (11)
risk-assessment9
integrity9
firmware8
security8
auditing8
hugo-theme7
css6
hugo6
typography5
javascript5
html5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
PreOS-Security/awesome-firmware-security
Oct 2016 - Apr 2018
Awesome Firmware Security & Other Helpful Documents
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 1 year 6 months
securityhelpfulfirmware
PreOS-Security/fwaudit
Sep 2017 - Sep 2018
Platform Firmware Auditing Tool
Contributions:3 releases, 20 commits, 8 PRs in 11 months
firmwaresecurityrisk-assessmentintegrityauditing
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