Sam Cater
Director & CTO at Innovate UK
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSam Cater is a seasoned technology leader and security specialist with 12+ years of experience, currently serving as Director & CTO for DebenTech while leading Cloud Infrastructure Research at BT. He has a long BT pedigree spanning research, security innovation, startup scouting, and hands-on lab and infrastructure design, bridging telecoms cloud, embedded systems, data analytics and automation. A certified CISSP and CISMP, Sam represents BT to the Connectivity Standards Alliance and advises Innovate UK, reflecting a mix of technical credibility and strategic influence. He’s known for turning early-stage security vendor discoveries into pragmatic trials and integrations, and for maintaining secure, reproducible lab environments that inform large-scale deployments. Outside corporate roles he combines consultancy with technical journalism roots and open-source community experience dating back to Ubuntu contributions, showing a practical, curious engineer who still values grassroots technical engagement.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
A Levels, Computing, Psychology, Sociology, General Studies., A Levels, Computing, Psychology, Sociology, General Studies. at Northgate Sixth FormCertificate In Information Security Management Principles, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Distinction, Certificate In Information Security Management Principles, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Distinction at British Computer SocietyFoundation Degree, Communications Technologies: Software Engineering, Distinction, Foundation Degree, Communications Technologies: Software Engineering, Distinction at University Campus SuffolkBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) with Honours, Computer Software Engineering, First Class, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) with Honours, Computer Software Engineering, First Class at University of Essex and University of East Anglia (Joint Award)
English, German
Github Skills (115)
security10
malware10
dockerfile10
duckyscript10
ecosystem10
linux10
wifi-security10
golang10
container10
aircrack-ng10
go10
phishing10
mongodb10
docker10
access-point10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
xcellardoor/wireguard-simple-vpn-config
Apr 2017 - Jul 2022
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 4 months
xcellardoor/docker-volume-backup
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:8 PRs, 5 pushes, 7 branches in 1 day
volumesdockerrestoredocker-volumesbackup
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