Adon Metcalfe
Senior Director at Department of the Premier and Cabinet of WA
Perth, Western Australia
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Top SchoolAdon Metcalfe is a senior technology and security leader based in Perth with 11 years of experience building and running large-scale infrastructure and security operations for the Western Australian government. He led a MITRE-aligned Security Operations Centre and now oversees infrastructure operations for the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, focusing on pragmatic reduction of complexity, transparency and measurable cyber hygiene. Adon has a hands-on background in compute, networking, storage and satellite connectivity dating back to running a Debian/OpenBSD/Xen-based hosting company, and he applies that operational pedigree to modern SOC and GRC challenges. He champions open source and public-domain tooling to improve accessibility and accountability, and uses cyber hygiene baselines (ACSC ISM, CISA CPGs, NIST CSF) to drive investment in broad industry capability.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at The University of Western Australia
English
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Github Skills (180)
security10
opendkim10
jupyterhub10
openstreetmap9
burn9
django9
cybersecurity9
python9
docker-container9
server9
microsoft-graph9
sentinel9
azure8
high-performance8
nbdev8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
wagov/python-squ
Feb 2023 - Dec 2023
Python package for core siem-query-utils
Contributions:7 releases, 3 reviews, 15 PRs in 9 months
python
wagov-dtt/architecture-decision-records
Feb 2025 - Jul 2026
Architecture records and current decision state to support infrastructure and platform operations for DGOV DTT Team.
Contributions:3 releases, 1 review, 18 PRs in 1 year 4 months
architecture
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