Andrew Ruthven
Chief Information Security Officer
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Ruthven is a seasoned technology leader and Chief Information Security Officer with 19 years' experience building and securing cloud and data centre platforms from Wellington, New Zealand. He combines deep hands-on expertise in OpenStack, IPv6, DNSSEC and VoIP with a pragmatic operations mindset honed managing multiple data centres and public cloud infrastructure at Catalyst Cloud. A long-time Debian contributor and former maintainer in Perl and ecosystem teams, he blends open source stewardship with enterprise security and compliance. Known as a problem-solving "geek," Andrew pairs low-level technical skills (PostgreSQL, automation, DNS) with strategic risk management, and has a track record of turning infrastructure complexity into reliable, auditable systems.
19 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. with Honours, Computer Science, B.Sc. with Honours, Computer Science at Victoria University of Wellington
Github Skills (184)
python10
bug-tracker10
vulnerability-scanners10
perl10
openstack-swift10
backblaze10
rsync10
azure-files10
backup10
precompiled10
sftp10
encryption10
unix10
project-management10
django10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
puck/catalystcloud-docs
Mar 2021 - Sep 2025
Catalyst Cloud Documentation
Contributions:1 PR, 13 pushes, 7 branches in 4 years 6 months
cloudcatalystaws
catalyst/rt-extension-resetpassword
Feb 2018 - May 2020
Contributions:4 PRs, 3 pushes, 1 tag in 2 years 3 months
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