Shaun Norris
Associate Director Security Transformation
Richmond, Tasman, New Zealand
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Top SchoolShaun Norris is a Chief Architect specializing in cyber defense infrastructure with over a decade of hands-on experience designing secure cloud architectures across Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud for enterprise clients at Accenture. He combines deep technical expertise in Kubernetes, CI/CD, containerization and cloud networking with practical security delivery—authoring the policies and procedures that align red, blue and cyber defense teams. Prior roles span cloud engineering, bioinformatics development, and founding a tech services firm, reflecting a rare blend of large-scale systems architecture, data-driven engineering, and startup pragmatism. Shaun also maintains an active emergency services career as a Paramedic and Firefighter, demonstrating resilience, crisis leadership, and operational discipline under pressure. That mix of front-line incident response and corporate cyber defense gives him a unique perspective on designing resilient systems that work in chaotic, real-world conditions.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's Degree Emergency Medical Services, Associate's Degree Emergency Medical Services at Northern Virginia Community CollegeBachelor’s Degree Bioinformatics, Bachelor’s Degree Bioinformatics at Virginia Commonwealth University
Spanish
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Github Skills (20)
networking7
kernel7
webserver6
nginx6
k8s6
optimization6
server6
csrf6
python6
jinja26
security6
django6
monitoring6
observability4
kubernetes4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nisheth/M3DB
Feb 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:74 commits, 145 pushes, 15 branches in 11 months
metabolic-reconstruction/met-modeling
Feb 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 46 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
model-generationmachine-learning
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