About Me
I love building, coaching, and celebrating engineering teams that build world-class, and world-changing software!
Details:
- Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Email: [email protected]
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/olivercpayne
- GitHub: github.com/olipayne
Work Experience
Engineering Manager @ Cloudflare
Jan 2023 - Present | Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Leading & growing multiple AppSec engineering teams
- Building Cloudflare's first scalable behavioural-based threat detections
- Translating company mission/vision to cross-team strategy
Manager - Web Services @ RIPE NCC
Jan 2020 - Dec 2022 | Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Representing team and company at global tech conferences (RIPE Meetings)
- Designing and implementing the web strategy for ripe.net
- Stakeholder management of RIPE community and translating feedback to engineering effort
Software Engineer @ RIPE NCC
Aug 2013 - Jan 2020 | Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Knee-deep in PHP, turning lots of sites and repos into one maintainable monorepo
- Attending and talking at conferences, representing the team work
- Implementing the team strategy, in PHP and Python web technologies.
Projects
US Invention - Bot Queue
US Patent/Invention submitted to trick bots into thinking that they've been undetected when queuing for access to a website.
ConnectDrive.co.uk
A volunteer driver platform management system, used by many volunteer organisations across the UK to help organise their volunteer driver efforts.
View Project →Interests & Hobbies
FOSS Contributions
Helping other people make cool stuff
Motorcycling
Cliché I know
IoT Engineering
Ask me about whatever my latest ESP32 project is!
Overengineered Smart Home
Who really needs different light colour depending on the position of the sun? Me