Charles Neill
Principal Architect at DefectDojo
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolCharles Neill is a Principal Architect and application security specialist with 11 years of experience building automation and tooling to keep security woven into the SDLC. Currently shaping DefectDojo as a platform for consolidating and managing security findings, he brings hands-on experience designing, shipping, and reviewing features that scale across diverse toolchains. Previously he built the “plumbing” for enterprise appsec at TIBCO and implemented DevSecOps guardrails for Kubernetes-deployed apps at OnDeck, pairing threat modeling with practical automation. Known for pragmatic open-source involvement (notably with DefectDojo and Syntribos) he balances developer-friendly workflows with rigorous security standards. Based in Austin, he blends a CS degree from UT Austin with a research-curious mindset—evident from early work on innovation research and event-focused web development—that keeps him focused on usable, measurable security outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Computer Science, Bachelors Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
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Github Skills (55)
kubernetes10
devsecops10
vulnerability-management10
python10
django10
security-automation10
analytics10
security10
automation10
owasp10
infosec9
hacking9
ruby7
provisioning7
macos7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cneill/barbican
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:6 commits, 18 PRs, 84 pushes in 20 days
secureapiprovisioningsecure-storagesecrets
cneill/hc
Sep 2020 - Jul 2025
Golang HTTP Client
Contributions:1 PR, 21 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 11 months
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