Summary
Pete Maynard is a technically focused security engineer and Unix systems expert with over two decades of hands-on Unix experience and 11 years in professional security and research roles. Currently an Analyst in Security Engineering at National Gas, he blends systems administration, threat modelling and secure web/API development (Go, Python/Django, Java/Spring, PHP) with practical operational tooling like Ansible, Prometheus, Zabbix and WireGuard. His background spans academia and industry—contributing novel threat-modelling research at Queen’s University Belfast and leading security architecture and cryptographic protocol work for UAV and automotive projects at ANGOKA. Pete is an active maintainer of free and open source tooling, operates his own long-running repositories, and is comfortable moving between low-level ICS/OT analysis and full-stack application security. Based in Wales, he pairs rigorous research training (Research Doctorate in Computer Systems, Networking and CNI resilience) with a pragmatic, deployable approach to securing critical systems.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at Aberystwyth University
Research Doctorate Computer Systems Networking and Critical Infrastructure , Research Doctorate Computer Systems Networking and Critical Infrastructure at Queen's University Belfast
Higher National Diploma Computing , Higher National Diploma Computing at Pembrokeshire College
English, Welsh, Bulgarian, Russian