Rafe Hart
Vice President Security at StarRez, Inc.
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolRafe Hart is a seasoned security architect and people leader with 11+ years shaping secure, compliant SaaS and payment platforms across Australia, the US, UK and EU. As Vice President Security at StarRez and former Head of Cyber Security at a Mastercard-focused fintech, he blends hands-on application and cloud security with program-level risk, privacy and compliance (SOC 2, PCI, GDPR) expertise. He has led cross-functional engineering teams of 40+ in Azure, Kubernetes and mixed-cloud environments to deliver scalable, auditable services. Comfortable switching between coding, architecture and executive strategy, he excels at standing up security programs for rapidly growing products. Based in Melbourne, he’s also a practical privacy advocate and self-described hacker who brings a pragmatic, caffeine-fueled curiosity to solving thorny security problems.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MBA (Executive), MBA (Executive) at RMIT University
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Github Skills (33)
linux10
kali-linux10
mutation9
gatekeeper8
keybase8
security8
validation8
end-to-end-encryption8
electron8
jira8
pgp7
poc7
typescript7
chat7
exploit7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rafaelh/kubernetes
Mar 2019 - Jun 2025
Containerise all the things!
Contributions:37 PRs, 55 pushes, 31 branches in 6 years 4 months
containersall-the-thingsdockerkubernetescontainer
rafaelh/jirareports
Nov 2016 - Jun 2025
Scripts for reporting out of JIRA
Contributions:23 PRs, 122 pushes, 16 branches in 8 years 8 months
jirareporting
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