Paul Mccarty
Maintainer at Something Real Ventures
Gold Coast City, Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Mccarty is a seasoned cybersecurity and DevSecOps leader with over two decades of hands-on experience building and securing cloud-native systems, automation pipelines, and startups. He founded SecureStack and led it from single‑developer product to venture-backed ASPM platform, partnering with AWS, GitHub, Microsoft and Atlassian to scale globally. Paul is obsessive about automation and Linux, fluent in Ansible, Puppet, Terraform and cloud formation, and has a long track record embedding security into engineering workflows for organizations from NASA JPL to Queensland Treasury. More recently he focuses on software supply chain offensive security, running research teams, red-team engagements and maintaining the OpenSourceMalware ecosystem to defend against malicious packages. He combines founder-level product judgment with deep technical craft—an operator who still writes the tools and research that shape defensive posture. Based on his career arc, he brings rare pragmatic expertise in turning security research into operational controls that teams can adopt day-to-day.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science History, Computer Science History at Wayne State UniversityCass Technical High School
English
Github Skills (120)
devsecops10
python10
security10
vulnerability-detection10
ssh10
scanner10
fingerprint10
infosec10
ansible10
vulnerabilities10
dsl10
security-scanner10
source-code-analysis10
aws10
region10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
SecureStackCo/actions-log4j
Feb 2022 - Apr 2022
Contributions:5 releases, 37 commits, 33 pushes in 2 months
6mile/DevSecOps-Playbook
Nov 2021 - Dec 2022
This is a step-by-step guide to implementing a DevSecOps program for any size organization
Contributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 94 commits in 1 year 1 month
devopssecuritykubernetesplaybookdevsecops
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