I care about the impact of my work and who I work with. Work isn’t my whole life, but is a serious, important, part of it. I love to categorically solve security problems in an inclusive way, to lift us all up as a team and industry.
Lachlan "skooch" Temple
@skooch
security for humans.
What I'm looking for
Offensive security consultant turned engineer, that builds defensive security teams at organisations, and security features for end users.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Staff Security Operations Engineer
Blinq
Jan 2025 - Present (5 months)
General cybersecurity and platform engineering counsel, while building out the related internal functions to maturity.
Head of Product
Nullify
Sep 2024 - Jan 2025 (4 months)
Led product development and engineering strategy as the Head of Product, leveraging years of experience with the competition.
Shipped: Internal product workflow, customer support, product designs, engineering work management (faster releases), and more.
General cybersecurity and compliance counsel of all sorts—and shipped security features/improvements to both the product and internal engineering capabilities.
Shipped: Bot protection, authentication methods, cookie compliance, bug bounty improvements, and more.
Head of Application Security
Belong
Aug 2020 - Sep 2023 (3 years 1 month)
Led the application security program to support engineering, and to grow security culture. Building team, tooling, and infrastructure—from the ground up. Worked internally to submit on, and assist compliance with Australian telco regulators.
Shipped: Passkeys, MFA, internal vulnerability management that fit into dev workflow, many successful migrations and deprecations, and more.
Senior Technical Specialist
Trustwave
Mar 2019 - Sep 2020 (1 year 6 months)
Cybersecurity consulting. Worked on: embedded exploitation, physical red teams, penetration tests, security architecture, vulnerability management, disaster response, security education/culture, and more.
Security Consultant
ZX Security Ltd
Mar 2016 - Aug 2018 (2 years 5 months)
Cybersecurity consulting. Worked on: internal network penetration testing, biometric recognition security, web application testing, fleet/GPS tracking and spoofing, HRIS/CRM security and compliance, and more.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Lachlan "skooch" hasn't added their education
Don't worry, there are 90k+ talented remote workers on Himalayas
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Google Tag Manager
Postman
Snowflake
Splunk
AWS IAM
Amazon EC2
Microsoft Azure
Google Cloud Platform
Amazon S3
Google Cloud Storage
GitHub
Kubernetes
Docker Compose
AWS Fargate
Cloudflare
Amazon CloudFront
Fastly
Jenkins
Salesforce
Electron
React Native
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Amazon Route 53
Braze
Dropbox
Font Awesome
Google Fonts
Node.js
Spring Boot
Spring
Ruby on Rails
Next.js
Symfony
NestJS
Spring Framework
Tailwind CSS
Google Analytics
Google Search Console
Figma
Adobe Photoshop
Slack
Zendesk
Redis
Terraform
AWS CloudFormation
Visual Studio
IntelliJ IDEA
Jira
RxJava
React
jQuery
jQuery UI
Svelte
Webpack
JavaScript
Python
HTML5
Java
CSS 3
PHP
Ruby
Kotlin
Go
Elixir
Visual Basic
AWS Elastic Load Balancing ...
AWS CloudTrail
Splunk Enterprise
HubSpot
ExpressJS
React Storybook
Wireshark
Ubuntu
Linux
Windows
Windows Server
Fedora
OpenBSD
FreeBSD
Oracle Solaris
PayPal
Datadog
Splunk Cloud
Signal App
Google Workspace
Microsoft Office 365
Confluence
GraphQL
Google Cloud Pub/Sub
1Password Secrets Automation
Spring Security
Google reCaptcha
WordPress
AWS Lambda
Google Cloud Functions
Amazon RDS
Redux
Vercel
Spigot
TypeScript
React Testing Library
Visual Studio Code
Auth0
Firebase Authentication
OAuth2
Git
Docker
Tailscale
Zoom
Varnish
NGINX
Docker Secrets
Google BigQuery
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Braintree
SAP
Google Cloud Run
Google Ads
Yoast
jsDelivr
React Router
PostHog
Availability
Location
Authorized to work in
Website
skooch.wsSalary expectations
Social media
Job categories
Interested in hiring Lachlan "skooch"?
You can contact Lachlan "skooch" and 90k+ other talented remote workers on Himalayas.
Message Lachlan "skooch"Find your dream job
Sign up now and join over 85,000 remote workers who receive personalized job alerts, curated job matches, and more for free!
