Intro

Hi, I’m Paul 👋

I’m Paul, aka aegilops. That’s my GitHub handle. It means nothing deeper than being a word with all of the letters in alphabetic order, which wasn’t already taken! It’s said ee-ji-lops (or ˈē-jə-ˌläps for anyone who knows IPA).

I’ve got a background in computer security, having done a couple of decades of network security, AppSec, vulnerability research and research & development.

I started work at GitHub at the end of May 2022.

I work as a Field Security Specialist, which mostly means I help GitHub customers make the most of GitHub’s code security products during trials (and sometimes afterwards).

My interest in spoken languages has been fuelled by working with colleagues and customers across Europe - I’ve been trying to improve my high-school German and I’ve picked up a little Spanish (¡Hola! Hablo un poco de español) for the first time. I’m yet to try to put my on-a-whim DuoLingo-acquired Chinese to much use: 我会说一点儿的中文。为什么我学习中文吗？我不知道！There’s bits of French (another high school one), Portuguese (a holiday), Ukrainian and Dutch (a work trip) in there too, none at more than a basic level.

Disclaimer

Everything I say here is my own opinion, and not that of anyone else: not GitHub, my employer, nor Microsoft (GitHub’s parent company).

Licence

Copyright (C) Paul Hodgkinson, aka aegilops

Licenced under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)