Shane Goodwin is a strategic, hands-on IT and cybersecurity leader with over 27 years' experience across defence, government and commercial sectors, currently managing IT and cyber security at EM Solutions in Queensland. He blends deep technical skills—from Red Hat and VMware to Azure and hybrid infrastructures—with proven governance and incident response expertise, having led ISO27001 certifications and recovered environments from ransomware. Shane’s background in defence and intelligence engineering informs his disciplined approach to secure, resilient architecture and operational readiness, and he has contributed to notable open-source projects such as Weld and JBoss PicketLink around authentication and authorization. A practical problem-solver and former small-business owner, he pairs field-tested electronics and drone systems experience with enterprise security leadership, making him equally comfortable in a datacentre or a remote deployment. Known for mentoring high-performing teams and translating technical risk into executive guidance, he consistently delivers compliant, scalable solutions that align with mission objectives.
20 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Red Hat Certified Engineer Linux, Red Hat Certified Engineer Linux at Red Hat
Certificates 1 and 2 in Commercial Cookery Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant, Certificates 1 and 2 in Commercial Cookery Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant at Canberra Institute of Technology
Certs 1 2 and 4 in Electronics Industrial Electronics Technology/Technician, Certs 1 2 and 4 in Electronics Industrial Electronics Technology/Technician at RMIT University
Working at Heights, Working at Heights at Raytheon Australia
Open Cabling Certificationo Industrial Electronics Technology/Technician, Open Cabling Certificationo Industrial Electronics Technology/Technician at Raytheon
Telecommunications Manager Industrial Electronics Technology/Technician, Telecommunications Manager Industrial Electronics Technology/Technician at Australian ARMY
Weld, including integrations for Servlet containers and Java SE, examples and documentation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:78 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Shane primarily contributed to the implementation of core functionalities within the Weld project, focusing on creating context implementation and adding dependencies. Their work included implementing a basic context with a HashMap, adding the servlet API dependency, and initial implementation of the ServletLifecycle and initialization code. Further commits demonstrate development work related to deployment strategy, initialization and the addition of a webbeans example.
The quickstarts demonstrate PicketLink and a few additional technologies. They provide small, specific, working examples that can be used as a reference for your own project.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:14 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Shane contributed to the PicketLink Quickstarts repository, primarily focusing on the authorization and authentication aspects. Their work included refactoring the `LoginController` into a `@Stateless` bean, adding a Drools-based authorization quickstart, and creating the structure for an ACL quickstart. The user also made updates to the existing JPA authorization quickstart and implemented security bindings.
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Shane Goodwin - Information Technology And Cyber Security Manager