An experienced security expert and professional problem solver. I build clean solutions to my client's problems, and try to have fun along the way.
At Tessian (Now proofpoint since our acquisition in 2024) I lead customers through the POC process - handling environment provisioning, technical integration and threat hunting. I also developed an automation platform we use internally which saves our team hundreds of hours a month.
At IBM I was a technical consultant in their Expert Labs department for clients across EMEA. I specialised in Identity and Access Management, usually focused on Access Management for web systems.
My responsibilities included leading teams through design, implementation and testing of large-scale identity and access management solutions, writing custom integrations between IBM solutions and third party systems, and ensuring service reliability.
Owing to my love of learning by doing, I joined IBM as an apprentice in 2014 having studied computer science at A-level. I thrived in the apprenticeship scheme and in 2016 won the British Computer Society’s ‘Apprentice of the Year’ award. As an identity and access management specialist I worked with IBM security customers across the UK to build secure, scalable security solutions.
I have a lot of energy and passion for building things. I like to have several side projects going at any one time. Currently in my free time I...
So there's the short version - I'm a passionate security engineer with a decade of security, networking and development experience. I'm as happy working by myself as I am leading a team and have plenty of experience doing both.
I'm always open to exploring my next oppourtunity, so please get in touch if we could work together.
hey@willmurphy.co.uk