Philip Hayton
R&D Team Leader at Cycode | Complete ASPM
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPhilip Hayton is an R&D Team Leader and hands-on engineering manager with 13 years of experience building and shipping developer-focused products, particularly in SAST and developer experience tools. He led the integration of Bearer’s security scanner into Cycode and owns CLI and IDE plugin domains, blending product-facing delivery with low-level tooling and DevOps. Philip has a strong full-stack background (Ruby on Rails, TypeScript/React) and an operational mindset evidenced by weekly binary releases and infrastructure work dating back to running serverless media pipelines. He mentors and grows teams while still contributing ~50% as an individual contributor, making him as comfortable in code reviews and CI pipelines as in hiring decisions. A quirky “badger IRL” GitHub bio hints at a pragmatic, persistent problem-solver who prefers shipping usable solutions over academic perfection.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Computing Science BSc Honours Computer Science, Computing Science BSc Honours Computer Science at Newcastle University
Github Skills (8)
command-line10
command-line-interface10
go10
security-automation10
security-scan10
cli10
security-scanner10
devops9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Bearer/bearer
Oct 2022 - Mar 2023
Code security scanning tool (SAST) to discover, filter and prioritize security and privacy risks.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:195 reviews, 50 commits, 305 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Philip contributed to the code security scanning tool, focusing on enhancements to the command-line interface, report generation, and overall tool functionality. They implemented features such as auto-generated documentation for CLI arguments and improved progress logs. Additionally, they made changes to the build process, including updating dependencies and fixing issues related to configuration loading and summary reports.
protectbugbountycode-qualitysastcompliance
gotbadger/HomeIoT
Apr 2018 - Aug 2021
Contributions:1 release, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
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