Simon Arnell
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder at Configured Things
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSimon Arnell is a seasoned technology leader and entrepreneur with 10 years of experience building security-focused products and teams, currently serving as CEO and co-founder of Configured Things. He blends systems thinking, R&D pedigree from HP Labs and Royal Holloway, and hands-on security architecture to translate research prototypes (like DNS analytics and SDN-for-security) into deployed services and commercial offerings. At enterprise scale he has led Zero Trust advisory, SOAR proofs-of-concept and horizon-scanning programs that influence strategic risk decisions across clients and partners. His career uniquely spans deep academic-style modelling of socio-technical risk to pragmatic productisation and go-to-market leadership, and his startup was part of the GCHQ/NCSC Cyber Accelerator—an indicator of its technical credibility. Based in Bristol, he pairs a research mindset with operational rigor to help organisations detect, respond and reconfigure in the face of evolving threats.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Information Security, MSc Information Security at Royal Holloway, University of London
Github Skills (103)
table-of-contents10
data-manipulation10
commonmark10
encoding10
compression10
encryption10
haskell10
markdown10
markup-language10
markup10
knife10
pandoc10
data-analysis10
vintage10
converter10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
simonarnell/GDPRDPIAT
Jun 2017 - Jul 2022
A GDPR Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) tool to assist organisations to evaluate data protection risks with respect to the EU's General Data Protection Regulation. 🇪🇺
Contributions:5 releases, 46 commits, 4 PRs in 5 years 1 month
evaluateorganisationsdpiaassistgitops
simonarnell/homebridge-solis
Dec 2020 - Mar 2022
A homebridge plugin that collects solar panel generation data from Solis PV inverters and publishes to the HomeKit ecosystem.
Contributions:15 releases, 46 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 2 months
homekitsolis-pv-inverterssolarsolar-panelpanel
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