Shane Boulden
Principal Solution Architect And Security Strategist
Adelaide, South Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolShane Boulden is a Principal Solution Architect and Security Strategist at Red Hat with 10+ years of experience building secure, cloud-native platforms and driving DevSecOps adoption at scale. He blends hands-on engineering—contributing backend work to projects like ManageIQ—with strategic leadership helping customers integrate security into Kubernetes development and runtime. Shane has a strong track record across public and private sectors, including automating Australian government cybersecurity guidance and supporting large financial and joint Red Hat–AWS IRAP assessments. His background spans deep technical delivery (OpenStack, OpenShift, Ansible, Ceph) and formal security strategy, informed by a Master’s in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and a decade of prior leadership in the Royal Australian Navy. Known for turning compliance and supply-chain security concepts into practical, hands-on learning experiences, he focuses on codifying policy into automated workflows that scale. Based in Adelaide, he brings a pragmatic, open-source-first approach to making complex cloud security both auditable and repeatable.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyUNSW Sydney
Github Skills (8)
management10
manageiq10
ruby-rails10
rails10
ruby10
associations9
spec8
testing8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ManageIQ/manageiq
Jul 2016 - Nov 2016
ManageIQ Open-Source Management Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 4 PRs, 8 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Shane primarily worked on exposing and managing compliance-related objects within the ManageIQ automation engine. They added new associations, specifically for compliances and last_compliance, and exposed these in service models. The user also reverted these changes, showcasing an iterative development process. Furthermore, the user exposed `miq_groups` to the Automate engine and added a spec for it.
gcporigamiopenshiftcephredfish
shaneboulden/chat-client
Mar 2021 - Nov 2024
Contributions:37 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
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