Scott Brown
Senior Security Architect at KOHO
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Brown is a Senior Security Architect with 12+ years of hands-on experience designing secure, cost-effective cloud environments—primarily on AWS—and leading teams to embed security into the SDLC. He has founded and run JustPlainSimple Technologies, driven multi-account AWS architectures, centralized auth and logging, and delivered measurable vulnerability reductions through developer-focused programs and tooling. Scott blends deep engineering chops (back-end, infra-as-code, SRE automation) with policy, compliance, and disaster-recovery expertise, having supported SOC 2, ISO27001, HIPAA and GDPR initiatives. Known for turning operations into automated, developer-friendly platforms, he pairs pragmatic code-reading skills with a knack for converting security into business enablers so teams can take smarter risks. Based in Vancouver, he remains entrepreneurial—balancing consultancy work with in-house security leadership at companies like KOHO and Treasure Data.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) at The University of British Columbia
Github Skills (74)
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td-agent10
static-analysis9
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agile9
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risk-analysis9
command-line-interface9
terraform9
gcp9
custom-tag9
container-image9
amazon-web-services9
aws9
deprecated9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
scottbrown/thinkific-interview
Feb 2020 - Oct 2025
Interview Submission for Thinkific - 20200111
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 5 years 9 months
thinkific
scottbrown/http2httpsredirect
May 2019 - Feb 2026
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 9 months
http-redirectsredirectsdockernano
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