Scott Daniels
Engineering Manager at Rocket Lab Ltd
New Zealand
Summary
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RockstarScott Daniels is an experienced IT and engineering leader based in New Zealand, now focused on platform security management at Ping Identity. He spent over a decade building and operating robust infrastructure and security controls across education, SME hosting, and high-growth aerospace at Rocket Lab, rising to IT Principal Engineer. Scott combines hands-on skills in cloud migrations, SSO, VMware/AWS, automation (Saltstack), and network/security implementations like 802.1x and certificate management with people leadership. He has a track record of modernising environments—migrating to Office365/AWS, deploying MDM and BYOD networks, and introducing CI/CD and monitoring—often under tight budgets and rapid growth. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, end-to-end solutions that balance developer needs with operational security. He brings a systems-minded, operator-first perspective that often surfaces simple, durable fixes others miss.
1 year of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (7)
cve8
sca7
vulnerability7
vulnerabilities6
database6
security6
security-vulnerability5
Github contributions (1)
github/advisory-database
Aug 2024 - Aug 2024
Security vulnerability database inclusive of CVEs and GitHub originated security advisories from the world of open source software.
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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