Ricky Neil
Senior Security Engineer at Deputy
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolRicky Neil is a Senior Security Engineer based in Sydney with a decade of experience blending software engineering and applied security across SaaS and enterprise environments. He has led WAF, IDS/IPS and anti-phishing efforts at Campaign Monitor and now drives security engineering at Deputy, routinely training developers in defensive coding and incident triage. Early work at Thales and CSIRO gave him a strong systems and signal-processing background, informing his pragmatic approach to real-time, performance-sensitive and cloud-native defenses. Comfortable in C/C++, Python and infrastructure tooling, he bridges low-level engineering with modern cloud security operations. Colleagues rely on him for clear threat prioritisation and for turning complex attack surface problems into maintainable, auditable controls.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
The University of SydneyHigh School Diploma, Computer Science, High School Diploma, Computer Science at Northern Beaches Christian School
English
Stackoverflow
10,404reputation
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310answers
7questions
windows
top-5%
loops
top-5%
python
top-1%
indexing
top-5%
embedded
top-5%
Github Skills (37)
python10
disclosure10
vulnerability9
security9
loops9
indexing9
windows9
embedded9
database8
campaign-monitor8
api-monitor7
mouse6
zeep6
dictionary6
serial-port6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
serdalis/SimpleConfig
Sep 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:14 PRs, 38 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 3 months
configurationconfiguration-filefile-managementlite-weightlite
serdalis/SimpleDebug
Sep 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 3 months
hooksdebug
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