Kevin Ward
Principal Product Security Engineer at Tricentis
Reigate and Banstead, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Ward is a Principal Product Security Engineer with nine years focused on cloud and security engineering and a broader 20+ year engineering background spanning systems, integration, and information security roles. He has progressed from software and systems engineering into senior security consultancy and principal product security leadership at firms including Lockheed Martin, Capgemini, Control Plane, and now Tricentis. Kevin blends hands-on technical depth in secure cloud architectures with practical product-focused security practices, helping translate complex risk into actionable controls for development teams. Based in Reigate, UK, he pairs a physics-with-satellite-technology grounding with a track record of supporting both defence-grade and commercial product security, an uncommon mix that helps him bridge rigorous engineering discipline with pragmatic product delivery.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
2:2 Physics with Satellite Technology, 2:2 Physics with Satellite Technology at University of Surrey
Github Skills (8)
security9
operator9
branch-protection9
gh-extension5
github3
golang3
bootstrap2
kubernetes-security1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
wakeward/gh-branch-auditor
May 2024 - Jul 2026
GitHub Branch Protection Auditor
Contributions:2 reviews, 10 PRs, 35 pushes in 2 years 1 month
branch-protectiongh-extensiongolang
controlplaneio/badrobot
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
BadRobot - Operator Security Audit Tool
Contributions:126 reviews, 97 commits, 126 PRs in 1 year 2 months
operatorsecurity
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