Paul McCarty has been working in the distributed systems space since 1993 when he took his first job as a unix sysadmin in the university computer lab. In 1996 he started his own computer store and ISP, and then later a consultancy. Fast forward to 2021 and that consultancy evolved over the years to specialize in deploying security controls at scale, first in the datacenter, and then later in the public cloud. Paul's contracted for NASA, Boeing, Queensland government, the US military and a lot more. Now he nerds out on helping companies adopt real, no bullshit DevSecOps practices as the CTO of SecureStack, one of Forbes magazine's top cybersecurity companies to watch in 2021!