# Daryl Wong (@azureguard.eurosky.social)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/azureguard.eurosky.social
Headline: Security Architecture | GRC | DevSecOps | AppSec | AWS
Location: Singapore

## About

Focused on translating regulatory obligations into practical cloud controls, working across engineering teams and senior leadership.Grounded in cloud software engineering and technical leadership, bringing a pragmatic approach to compliance decisions and security architecture.

## Career

- **Lead Cloud Cybersecurity Engineer at Dyson** (May 2026 - Present)
  SG
  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
- **Technical Lead at Dyson** (Dec 2023 - May 2026)
  SG
  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
- **Senior Cloud Software Engineer at Dyson** (Oct 2022 - Dec 2023)
  SG
  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
- **Cloud Software Engineer at Dyson** (Apr 2022 - Sep 2022)
  SG
  • 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
- **Graduate Software Engineer at Dyson** (Nov 2020 - Apr 2022)
  SG
  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
- **Intern at Ensign Infosecurity** (Dec 2018 - Feb 2019)
  SG
  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
- **IT Officer at Cissa (Computing and Information Systems Students Association)** (2018 - 2019)
  • 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 at Fotoholics - Melbourne University Photography Club** (2017 - 2019)
- **President at Fotoholics - Melbourne University Photography Club** (2017 - 2018)
  • 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
- **Administration Overall-in-Charge at Singapore Army** (2014 - 2015)
  • 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

### Technical
- AWS
- C#
- Generative AI
- Python
- React
- Systems Design
- TypeScript
### Creative
- Photography
### Interpersonal
- Cross-functional Leadership
- Stakeholder Management
### Security
- Compliance Frameworks
- Cybersecurity
- Incident Response
- Risk Assessment
### Other
- .NET Core
- Adobe Photoshop
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Application Security Architecture
- C
- Cloud Migration
- Cloud Security
- Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
- Cyber Defense
- Cybersecurity Incident Response
- Data Engineering
- Event Photography
- Full-Stack Development
- Git
- Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance (GRC)
- Information Security Management System (ISMS)
- Microservices
- MLOps
- Network Security
- Node.js
- React.js
- Security Operations
- Solution Architecture
- SQL
- Team Building

## Credentials

- Security Yellow Belt — Security Journey (Oct 2023) https://my.securityjourney.com/api/certificates/jdgfwcOeaSeRXrrf39zZP/dyson
- Security Green Belt — Security Journey (Oct 2023) https://my.securityjourney.com/api/certificates/1zpyE8pLUdcdhOYtunWeks/dyson
- Security White Belt — Security Journey (Apr 2023) https://my.securityjourney.com/api/certificates/4rZVATurS1TnHOYETP3Itd/dyson

## Education

- **University of Melbourne** — Bachelor of Science (BSc) (2017 - 2019)
- **University of Melbourne** — BSc, Computing and Software Systems (Bachelor) (2017 - 2019)
- **Trinity College, the University of Melbourne** — Foundation Stuides (2016 - 2017)
- **Raffles Junior College** — Singapore-Cambridge GCE Advanced Level (A Levels) (2012 - 2013)
  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 Institution** — Raffles Programme (Integrated Programme) (2008 - 2011)
  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

### Volunteering
- Movement for the Intellectually Disabled of Singapore (Jun 2012 - Jul 2012)
  Volunteer
  Annual Camp for the Intellectually Disabled 2012
  • Organised logistics required throughout the event
  • Crafted games suited to the intellectually disabled
- Viriya Community Services (Jun 2011 - Jul 2011)
  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

- English (native)
- Mandarin Chinese (native)

## Links

- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryl-wong-jl