Richard Bignell
Senior Security Architect at Santander UK
Greater Northampton Area, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRichard Bignell is a Cloud Security Architect based in the Greater Northampton Area with over 11 years of hands-on experience designing and securing large-scale networks and cloud environments. He holds CISSP, AWS SA Pro, and CCNP certifications and has progressed from NOC and senior network engineering roles to architecting cloud security for Santander UK. His background spans complex network design, firewall and VPN deployments (Fortinet, Cisco, ASA), identity/authentication systems, and enterprise monitoring and automation. Richard combines deep operational experience—having led NOC teams and built managed network services—with an architect’s discipline for HLD/LLD documentation and standards development. Notably, he has a history of improving tooling and processes (SolarWinds, NetBrain, custom scripts) to make large estates more observable and manageable. He brings a pragmatic, security-first approach to cloud networking, translating legacy network expertise into robust cloud-native controls.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
2:1 BA Hons Multimedia Computing BA, 2:1 BA Hons Multimedia Computing BA at Coventry University
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (63)
uwsgi9
flask-application9
google-sheet9
flask8
google-sheets8
dockerfile8
docker-container8
webapp8
tplink8
docker-image8
google-sheets-api8
gspread7
google-sheets-api-v47
fitbit7
energy7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bignellrp/footyapp-api
Aug 2023 - Mar 2026
Footyapp with Mongodb
Contributions:1 review, 20 PRs, 64 pushes in 2 years 7 months
bignellrp/azurehubandspoke
May 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:59 commits, 58 pushes, 1 branch in 11 days
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