Simon Maxwell-stewart
Senior Cyber Security Researcher at BeyondTrust
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Maxwell-stewart is a Senior Cyber Security Researcher with 12 years of experience building scalable data and security systems across startups and enterprise environments. He blends hands-on engineering (Spark, Python, Trino, Airflow, Kubernetes) with research-driven detections for Entra ID, Active Directory, and AWS, and has a track record of turning technical content into product impact—his entitlements work drove a 1000x sales uplift after release. Previously he led data engineering and reporting initiatives that unified real-time transaction data to improve customer visibility and TPV, and has repeatedly architected high-throughput platforms handling hundreds of millions of requests per day. Based in Canada and trained in physics at the University of Oxford, he treats GitHub like a laboratory for experimentation and rapid prototyping, favoring practical, auditable solutions that bridge research and SOC operations.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Physics, Bachelor's Degree Physics at University of Oxford
Github Skills (145)
python10
authentication10
deep-learning10
laravel10
jwt10
neural-network10
web-token10
tensorflow10
machine-learning10
php10
lumen10
bcrypt10
mongoose9
ml9
validation9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kidtronnix/hapi-dash
Aug 2014 - Nov 2015
Contributions:34 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 3 months
apihapiboilerplatenodejsfrontend
kidtronnix/mongo-lambda
Feb 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:1 release, 79 commits, 28 PRs in 1 year 1 month
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