Richard Lam
Staff Security Engineer at Top Hat
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Lam is a Staff Security Engineer with nine years of hands-on cybersecurity experience designing automation-first workflows and securing cloud-native environments. He blends deep practical skills in AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Python, and Linux/BSD administration with a background in penetration testing, SIEM deployments, and SOC2/NIST-driven compliance. Richard has driven security programs across public sector and enterprise firms—building AWS test environments, automating dependabot alert handling, and deploying Lambda-based alerting to reduce mean time to remediation. Comfortable collaborating with development teams, he focuses on increasing developer velocity while hardening software through threat modelling and pragmatic remediation. Outside of engineering, he brings a long history in electronics and communications from earlier roles and maintains discipline from military reserve service, reflecting an uncommon mix of hardware, networking and cloud security experience. Based in Vancouver, he pairs technical depth with a practical automation mindset and a preference for efficient, maintainable security tooling.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)Electronics Common Core & Telecom Option (Defunct), Electronics Common Core & Telecom Option (Defunct) at Vancouver Community College (VCC)
English
Github Skills (3)
typescript1
monorepo1
react1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rlam13/aws-csa
Apr 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:94 commits, 93 pushes, 1 branch in 19 days
rlam13/freebsd-config
Sep 2017 - May 2019
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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