Vatsalya Goel
Principal Security Engineer at MakerX
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolVatsalya Goel is a Principal Security Engineer based in Melbourne with a decade of experience blending software development and security to make secure code delivery frictionless. He has progressed from graduate developer roles at Readify to technical lead in cyber security at Telstra Purple and now leads security initiatives at MakerX, coaching teams to adopt practical, developer-friendly security practices. A hands-on technologist, he tinkers with new languages and architectures and contributes to open source—most notably implementing and improving the Azure DNS provider in the widely used dnscontrol repo. He combines back-end and cloud engineering expertise with an attacker’s mindset to design robust, maintainable integrations and automate security controls. Colleagues know him for sparking engaging conversations about security that surface innovative, pragmatic solutions rather than process overhead. Beyond work he gives back through random OSS contributions, surfacing real-world insights into tooling and developer experience.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
The Heritage SchoolBachelor of Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Monash University
English, Hindi, French
Github Skills (9)
infrastructure-as-code10
azure-dns10
go10
dns10
api-design9
cloud-infrastructure9
api9
dockers5
docker5
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
StackExchange/dnscontrol
Sep 2019 - Aug 2022
Infrastructure as code for DNS!
Role in this project:
Back-end & Cloud Engineer
Back-end & Cloud EngineerContributions:21 commits, 11 PRs, 24 comments in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Vatsalya primarily focused on implementing and maintaining the Azure DNS provider within the dnscontrol project. Their contributions involved adding support for Azure DNS, upgrading the Azure SDK, and fixing bugs related to Azure DNS functionality. Furthermore, the user worked on incorporating alias records and enhancing the overall integration of Azure DNS within the dnscontrol framework.
dnscontroldnsdslproviderssynchronize
OpenDDD/dddmelbourne-website
Mar 2019 - May 2020
The website for the DDD Melbourne conference.
Contributions:23 PRs, 76 pushes, 20 branches in 1 year 1 month
dddmelbourne
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