Brendan Horan
Head Of Research And Development at Super Unlimited Inc.
Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, Australia
Summary
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SeniorBrendan Horan is a hardware-rooted technology leader with 12+ years of experience designing resilient infrastructure and secure systems, currently heading Research and Development at Super Unlimited and running PrivacyPicket to bring enterprise-grade security to smaller organisations. His career spans deep, hands-on work across diverse architectures (PA-RISC, SPARC, POWER, ALPHA/IA64 and x86 Linux) and building data centers globally, giving him a pragmatic "right tool for the job" approach to systems design. At ExpressVPN he led the TrustedServer program and infrastructure consolidation efforts that dramatically accelerated release cadence and hardened zero-trust security at scale. Brendan blends low-level curiosity—FPGA, microcontrollers and Nixie tubes—with modern software practices like IaC, TPM-backed key management and meaningful test-driven design. He’s equally comfortable mentoring engineers and writing operational tooling, and he applies his hobbyist air-quality and hardware projects to inform practical sensor-driven solutions.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (48)
gentoo10
linux10
ebuild9
displays7
tuner7
esp326
uid6
usb-serial6
benchmarking6
lcd6
assembly6
rust5
hardware-performance-counters5
embedded5
esp-idf5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
brendanhoran/router-tools
Feb 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:31 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
brendanhoran/dotfiles-dotter
Mar 2024 - Nov 2025
Dot files and operating system config managed via dotter
Contributions:8 PRs, 77 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 8 months
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