Glen Arrowsmith
Vice President Of IT, Security & Platform Engineering
Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolGlen Arrowsmith is a seasoned technology leader with 16+ years of experience, currently serving as Vice President of IT, Security & Platform Engineering at Arkose Labs where he’s driven the company’s transformation into a security-focused enterprise compliant with SOC2, ISO 27001/27002/27018/27701. A former software engineer who built and scaled engineering teams from a single person to 20+ engineers through Series C growth, he blends hands-on development chops with strategic security and platform delivery. He has implemented broad security tooling — from MDM and SIEM to container and IaC scanning — and leads GRC efforts, vendor supply-chain evaluations, and threat-driven risk assessments. Glen remains an active practitioner, doing pen testing and incident response when needed, and leverages his firmware/embedded and JavaScript background (notably contributions to firmata.js) to bridge hardware, cloud and application security. He’s passionate about mentoring and community-building, having organized conferences and workshops to teach robotics and JavaScript, which reflects his long-standing commitment to developer education. Based in Brisbane, he combines pragmatic engineering with a talent for growing people and secure, scalable systems.
16 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Systems Engineering, Computer Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Systems Engineering, Computer Systems Engineering at Griffith University
English
Github Skills (5)
javascript10
nodejs10
firmata10
sys9
embedded9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
firmata/firmata.js
Oct 2013 - Jun 2014
JavaScript implementation of the Firmata protocol
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Glen focused on improving the compatibility of the firmata.js library with different environments, specifically Chrome applications and browser environments. Their primary contributions involved adapting the code to use either `browser-serialport` or `serialport` based on the execution context, addressing potential errors, and tidying up the code. They also addressed a specific issue with serial reads and made improvements to the code's robustness.
firmatajavascript
garrows/IMMP
Jul 2014 - Jan 2017
Contributions:58 commits, 17 PRs, 24 pushes in 2 years 7 months
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