Philip Hayton
R&D Team Leader at Cycode | Complete ASPM
United Kingdom
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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
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Github Skills (8)
security-scanner10
command-line-interface10
go10
security-automation10
security-scan10
cli10
command-line10
devops9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
gotbadger/bear-publishing
Apr 2023 - Jul 2026
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 60 pushes in 3 years 2 months
gotbadger/HomeIoT
Apr 2018 - Aug 2021
Contributions:1 release, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
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