Scott Brown
Senior Security Architect at KOHO
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Brown is a Senior Security Architect with 12+ years of hands-on experience designing secure, cost-effective cloud environments—primarily on AWS—and leading teams to embed security into the SDLC. He has founded and run JustPlainSimple Technologies, driven multi-account AWS architectures, centralized auth and logging, and delivered measurable vulnerability reductions through developer-focused programs and tooling. Scott blends deep engineering chops (back-end, infra-as-code, SRE automation) with policy, compliance, and disaster-recovery expertise, having supported SOC 2, ISO27001, HIPAA and GDPR initiatives. Known for turning operations into automated, developer-friendly platforms, he pairs pragmatic code-reading skills with a knack for converting security into business enablers so teams can take smarter risks. Based in Vancouver, he remains entrepreneurial—balancing consultancy work with in-house security leadership at companies like KOHO and Treasure Data.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) at The University of British Columbia
Github Skills (95)
build-time10
aws-cli10
amazon10
aws10
user-data10
aws-security9
static-analysis9
ansible9
agile9
cli9
azure9
risk-analysis9
command-line-interface9
terraform9
python9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
scottbrown/paw
Aug 2018 - Apr 2023
Privileged Access Watcher: Notifies Slack channels when a member is added to/removed from an IAM group.
Contributions:3 PRs, 6 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 9 months
memberslack-channelsslackchannelsiam
scottbrown/aws-stack-tools
Feb 2016 - Mar 2023
A suite of tools to interact with AWS stacks
Contributions:1 release, 19 PRs, 22 pushes in 7 years 1 month
aws-cliinteractstacksawsaws-stacks
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