Thomas Black
Chief Security Officer Sparkoo Technologies Ireland Huawei Cloud at Huawei Cloud Europe
Sydney, New South Wales, Ireland
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Top SchoolThomas Black is a hands-on cybersecurity executive and founder with 10+ years securing cloud, AI, and OT environments across fintech, energy, and high-growth startups. Currently Chief Security Officer for Sparkoo Technologies Ireland at Huawei Cloud, he shapes EU-ready security posture, NIS2/DORA readiness, and supply chain safeguards while embedding Zero Trust and AI/LLM security frameworks across multi-cloud estates. He previously founded ASLAN and co-founded DevOps.Red, delivering DevSecOps, secure-by-design architectures, and public-facing training and open-source tooling that support early-career engineers. Known for combining offensive security expertise with pragmatic risk governance, he translates complex regulatory requirements into operational controls and board-level advisory. He brings deep experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, IaC hardening, SBOM adoption and enterprise threat modelling, and often pairs technical delivery with executive engagement. Based in Sydney with a European remit, he blends startup agility and consultancy breadth to help organisations innovate securely at scale.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Sociology, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Sociology at Brunel University of London
Github Skills (57)
jenkins-api-plugin9
ocean9
jenkins-ci9
reboot8
jenkins8
jenkins-pipeline8
user-experience8
jenkins-plugin8
continuous-integration7
jenkins-blue-ocean7
access-keys6
react6
chat6
client-library6
vagrant5
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
T0mmykn1fe/DevSecOps-OSX-Mac-Setup-with-Homebrew
Mar 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:5 commits, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
T0mmykn1fe/ServerlessWorkshop
Apr 2017 - Aug 2019
Lambda and all the goodness from A Cloud Guru
Contributions:3 PRs, 9 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 4 months
serverlessaws-lambdagurucloudaws
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