Daryl Wong
Security Architecture | GRC | DevSecOps | AppSec | AWS
Lead Cloud Cybersecurity Engineer at Dyson
- Open to
- Being mentoredCommissioned workCollaborations
- Preferred workplace
- Remote (worldwide)Remote (same region)Hybrid
Highlights
Full profile
Career: 10
Transferred internally to head the security function for Dyson's Connected Cloud department; covering security architecture, GRC, and incident response for the consumer IoT platform behind the MyDyson App.
• Responsible for security architecture, governance, risk management, and incident response across a cloud-native IoT platform serving millions of connected devices on AWS
• Own the automated vulnerability gate that blocks deployments on high/critical findings across all engineering teams, with final authority on disputed results
• Building MCP-integrated agentic tooling to bring business context, design intent, and implementation together at the point of security review
Led engineering delivery for the MLOps platform, working across ML research, product, and business functions to define and execute the platform roadmap.
• Worked directly with B2B sales, product, and UX writers, including direct exposure to UX research sessions and conversations with pilot users to translate business intent into a platform roadmap
• Owned technical vision and roadmap for an MLOps platform on AWS Batch orchestrated through Apache Airflow (MWAA), serving ML engineering teams across image segmentation and anomaly detection
• Received five early-career engineers on rotation from across Dyson's global offices, bringing them into the team's regular delivery cadence
Cross-functional engineer focused on accelerating delivery, improving developer experience, and embedding security practices across the team.
• Served as Security Champion; conducted architecture reviews and triaged SAST/SCA findings to shift security left in the development cycle
• Selected by department leadership to brief the CTO on the Cloud team's operational posture, covering distributed log ingestion, BDD-driven test automation (Cucumber.js), and CI/CD pipeline health
• Led the refactor of an internal integration testing framework in TypeScript, cutting execution time by ~75% with Azure Pipelines integration
• Established artefact tracking for an unstructured dataset of over 2 million image frames
• Conducted over 15 interviews and refreshed onboarding materials, reducing new-hire ramp-up time to 2 weeks
• Developed and maintained microservices and RESTful APIs supporting millions of IoT devices, alongside ETL pipelines for sensor data
• Prototyped an MLOps pipeline on EKS using Kubeflow for proof-of-concept evaluation
Year-long rotation across Cloud, Embedded Systems, and Robotics software teams.
• Co-organised Dyson's inaugural 4-day global software technical conference — 600+ attendees, 20 events, 15 speakers across Singapore and the UK
• Delivered early-stage architecture and database design for a high-traffic (>300 RPS) service
• End-to-end development across embedded and vision systems through to cloud integrations for the MyDyson App
Security Operations Centre analyst
• Customer-facing incident response for potential denial-of-service attempts, including SIEM alert analysis
• Penetration testing of in-house customer-facing systems using Burp Suite and Metasploit
• Administration of G Suite for Nonprofits and VPS
• Transitioned current varied backend stack to hybrid cloud hosting to reduce costs and improve performance
• Maintenance of bots and automation for general administration (automate.io, Slack bots, and Zapier)
Freelance Photographer
• Management of a growing professional event services team covering events for both the university and public
• Migrated web hosting from a US based shared hosting service to AWS, saving close to $100 a year
• Worked closely with a multi-national committee
• Sub-unit HR manager for over 100 personnel utilising SAP e-HR module
• Processed benefit claims and update sub-unit of changes to benefits schemes
• Produced slides to update superiors on manpower status and performance of the sub-unit
• Maintained historical records, conducting data analytics through Microsoft Excel for tracking of health and performance
• Maintained sub-unit IT infrastructure and document templates
Skills: 39
Technical
Creative
Interpersonal
Security
Other
Credentials: 3
Security Journey
Security Journey
Security Journey
Education: 5
University of Melbourne
Bachelor of Science (BSc)
University of Melbourne
BSc, Computing and Software SystemsBachelor
Trinity College, the University of Melbourne
Foundation Stuides
Singapore-Cambridge GCE Advanced Level (A Levels)
Raffles Photographic Society
• Secretary (2012-2013)
• Lead photographer for collaborative photo-shoot with Raffles Runway for its annual look-book Raffles Symphonic Band
• Performed in annual concerts held at various performance venues, including Esplanade Concert Hall
• Participated in Los Angeles International Music Festival 2013
- Gold Award
Activities / Societies: Raffles Photographic Society (Secretary), Raffles Symphonic Band
Raffles Programme (Integrated Programme)
Raffles Institution Military Band
• Head Librarian (2011)
• Self-taught instrumentalist Raffles Institution Infocomm Club
• Server Administrator (2010 – 2012) Transitioned club server from self-hosted to a dedicated hosting space
• National STRITWISE Challenge (2011), overall 9th placed, 1st place in quiz section
Activities / Societies: Raffles Institution Military Band (Head Librarian), Raffles Infocomm Club (Server Administrator)
Involvement: 2
Volunteering
Volunteer
Annual Camp for the Intellectually Disabled 2012
• Organised logistics required throughout the event
• Crafted games suited to the intellectually disabled
Organiser (Multimedia)
• Co-managed almost 500 peers from the same cohort
• Refurbished one room flats occupied by the less privileged elderly population
• Organised teams of photographers to document the process and gather material
• Headed media team to produce banners
• Produced short video to showcase efforts
Languages: 2
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