Shane Forster
Senior Security Engineer at Gigs
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolShane Forster is a Senior Security Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building and securing cloud-native platforms, currently focused on embedding connectivity into mobile services. A Ryerson computer science graduate and longtime Linux enthusiast, he has progressed from hands-on support and DevOps roles to lead platform and security responsibilities at companies like TrustFlight, Cloudreach and Kaluza. His background in site reliability and platform engineering gives him a pragmatic, systems-level view of security, while a sustained interest in cryptology informs threat-aware design choices. Shane’s volunteer leadership as a Glider Instructor and Flight Deputy Commander honed rapid decision-making and interpersonal skills that he applies to incident response and cross-team collaboration. Based in Edinburgh, he balances deep technical troubleshooting with product-minded engineering to ship resilient, auditable systems.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Toronto Metropolitan University
English
Github Skills (36)
linux10
ruby10
homebrew10
macos10
package-manager10
operator9
rollout9
operator-sdk9
w3m9
datadog9
agent8
kubernetes-operator8
kubernetes8
golang7
search-api7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Shane4STER/etc
Jan 2018 - Dec 2022
Contributions:159 commits, 34 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 11 months
Shane4STER/advent-of-code
Dec 2020 - Dec 2021
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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