Paul Horton
OPSO Global Director at Sonatype
Chester, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Horton is an experienced DevOps and presales engineering leader currently serving as EMEA Manager, Presales Engineering at Sonatype, with nearly two decades in IT and a strong background in Financial Services. He blends hands-on expertise in open-source tooling, continuous delivery automation, and infrastructure provisioning with the communication skills to translate complex technical issues for diverse audiences. A practical problem-solver who began his career in retail and e‑commerce, Paul is known for his reliability, innovation, and commitment to delivering results under challenge. He also contributes to notable open-source security tooling—enhancing Checkov’s reporting and CycloneDX SBOM support—demonstrating a focus on secure, auditable delivery pipelines. Based in Chester and holding a BSc in Computer Science from Lancaster University, he pairs technical depth with commercial leadership across EMEA.
6 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at Lancaster University
Github Skills (8)
terraformer10
aws10
python10
terraform10
infrastructure-as-code9
cloud-services8
cloud-infrastructure8
static-analysis7
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
bridgecrewio/checkov
Oct 2021 - Jan 2022
Prevent cloud misconfigurations and find vulnerabilities during build-time in infrastructure as code, container images and open source packages with Checkov by Bridgecrew.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 9 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily focused on enhancing Checkov's functionality for reporting and output formats. They added support for CycloneDX XML output, integrating a standard for software bill of materials. Further contributions included restricting the version of the `cyclonedx-python-lib` to a specific range, and incorporating changes related to AWS Lambda environment credential checks. The user also made updates to the Terraform parser and incorporated merges.
checkovcontainer-imageinfrastructure-as-codevulnerabilitiesterraform
vendorcorp/terraform-aws-eks-nxrm
Jan 2024 - Apr 2025
Terraform module to deploy Sonatype Nexus Repository Manager Pro (in HA)
Contributions:4 releases, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 3 months
sonatypeterraform-modulehigh-availabilitynexus-repository-managersonatype-nexus3
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