Zachary Sims
Security Engineer at Dcantr
Australia
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Top SchoolZachary Sims is a Security Engineer with 12 years of experience building secure, distributed systems across both Azure and AWS, currently contributing at Canva and co-founding cloud safety startups. He blends hands-on engineering and product thinking—having founded HACL and Iceberg Defender—to deliver practical security tooling that prevents threats before they reach users. His background spans principal and senior security roles at Atlassian and SEEK, plus founding and engineering roles in niche safety and compliance products, showing a knack for turning regulatory and safety needs into scalable cloud software. Based in Australia with a first-class honours in Software Engineering from Monash, he pairs deep technical rigor with entrepreneurial drive and an unexpected playful streak (as his GitHub bio suggests).
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Software Engineering, Honours Class 1 (H1), Bachelor of Software Engineering, Honours Class 1 (H1) at Monash University
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Github Skills (200)
windows10
terraform10
vpc10
vimium10
automation-framework10
terraform-module10
continuous-testing10
linux10
amazon-ecr10
hashicorp10
continuous-delivery10
windows-forms10
automation-ui10
vimperator10
continuous-deployment10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
zsims/win-docker-buildkite-plugin
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
Easily work with Docker Windows Containers from a AWS Linux Host Agent
Contributions:4 releases, 39 commits, 33 pushes in 2 days
containershost-agentagenthostwindows
buildkite/buildkite-signed-pipeline
Sep 2018 - May 2020
This is a tool that adds some extra security guarantees around Buildkite's jobs
Contributions:13 releases, 86 commits, 31 PRs in 1 year 8 months
buildkite-pluginsecuritybuildkitejobs
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