Hi, I'm Brenden Cruikshank. I’m an AWS Principle Cloud and DevSecOps Engineer.

I bring over two decades of experience to the tech industry, having started by founding and exiting a web services company in the late 2000s. Today, I specialise in building secure, highly scalable cloud and serverless architectures.

My work sits at the intersection of cloud architecture, stringent security compliance (including PCI DSS, SOCI, TDIF, NIST etc), and AI innovation, ensuring that systems Australians rely on are resilient and secure by design.

My technical approach is rooted in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, OpenTofu, and AWS CDK) and a "security-first" automation mindset. I'm particularly passionate about modernising the development lifecycle by integrating tools like Wiz.io and Snyk directly into the heartbeat of deployment workflows, and I've led initiatives that delivered significant AWS cost savings through architectural optimisation.

Beyond the technical architecture, I am dedicated to mentoring teams and helping them navigate the shifting landscape of cloud-native systems, SRE principles, and modern observability.