Simon Wilkinson
Enterprise Technology Operations Manager
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Wilkinson is an Enterprise Technology Operations Manager with 19 years of experience leading IT strategy, operations, and digital transformation across healthcare, utilities, and not-for-profit sectors in Australia and New Zealand. He combines hands-on security and infrastructure know-how—evidenced by open-source contributions to the Heimdal cryptographic project—with strong budgetary and team leadership to deliver resilient, compliant systems. Simon has a track record of modernising IT services from frontline support through to executive operations, most recently stepping into enterprise-level roles at Housing Choices Australia and headspace. His academic background in business information systems underpins a pragmatic approach to aligning technology investments with measurable business value. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic change agent who prioritises process efficiency and data security while keeping delivery timelines on track.
19 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Information Systems, Master of Business Information Systems at Auckland University of TechnologyBachelor of Information Systems, Bachelor of Information Systems at Manukau Institute of Technology
English
Github Skills (9)
c1710
code-optimization10
c1110
kerberos10
cryptography10
multithreading9
hashing-algorithm9
gssapi9
pki7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
heimdal/heimdal
Apr 2010 - Nov 2016
Heimdal
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 26 commits, 5 PRs in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Simon's contributions center on enhancing the Heimdal project, specifically focusing on security and cryptographic functionalities. They implemented mutex protection for the Fortuna PRNG, improving thread safety. The user also addressed code quality by removing unnecessary header inclusions and renaming conflicting variable names within core cryptographic routines. Furthermore, they optimized the code base by flagging 64-bit bit constants and refactoring the kerberos crypto library for better modularity.
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SimonWilkinson/heimdal
Oct 2010 - Jan 2015
Heimdal
Contributions:19 commits, 1 push, 2 branches in 4 years 3 months
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