About · Thomas Lind

About

How I got from a shop floor to a security team, and what I do with a homelab at the weekend.

Logos of Glasgow Caledonian University, Currys, Sword Group and the University of Glasgow — Where I've studied and worked

I came to security sideways. I spent my later university years on the shop floor at Currys, which sounds like a detour and wasn't — years of explaining technical things to people who didn't want a technical answer turns out to be most of the job in incident management. I graduated from Glasgow Caledonian in 2023 with a BSc in Cyber Security and Networks, and from there into a NOC.

Network operations taught me the shape of a problem at 3am: what's actually broken, what's noise, and who needs to know. It also taught me how much of the work was repetitive enough to hand to a script, which is where the Python habit started. Moving to the University of Glasgow as a Systems Analyst put me on the other side of that — estate-wide projects, endpoint and identity work, a Windows 11 migration across thousands of machines — and within months I moved into the threat and vulnerability side, which is where I've stayed.

Outside work I run a homelab, which is the honest answer to how I learn anything. It's a mix of Docker, Nginx, DNS, DHCP and VPN services held together with more Bash than I'd admit to in a code review, and it's where most of the things in my portfolio started life. If you want to talk about any of it, I'm at me@tommyl22.com.

Experience

Career

University of Glasgow

2025 — Present

Current role. Threat & Vulnerability Specialist Current

Identify and remediate vulnerabilities across the university's digital estate, and automate the security processes around them.

Run vulnerability management across the estate with Rapid7, Tenable and Nmap
Automate security workflows in Python, PowerShell and Bash to cut manual effort
Maintain secure servers and services underpinning the team's tooling
Promoted into the role within months of joining as a Systems Analyst

Rapid7
Tenable
Nmap
Defender
Python
PowerShell
Bash

2025

Systems Analyst

Led process improvement for the team while supporting estate-wide endpoint and identity projects.

Became the top ticket closer within weeks of joining
Authored the team knowledge base and led on process improvement
Supported the university-wide migration to Windows 11
Recognised in numerous research papers for contributions in IT

Intune
Active Directory
SCCM
JAMF
Defender
Windows
Linux
macOS

Sword Ping Network Solutions

2024 — 2025

NOC Network Analyst

First IT role. Monitored and troubleshot multi-vendor client networks, and automated the repetitive parts of the job.

Ranked among the top three analysts in ticket closures within the first year
Built automation tooling in Python and authored the team knowledge base
Trusted with major incident management for a client-focused, calm approach

SolarWinds
Cisco
Juniper
Fortinet
Meraki
Palo Alto
Python

Currys PC World

2021 — 2023

Sales & Team Lead

Worked through university, translating complex technical concepts into plain, customer-focused advice.

Colleague of the Year within the first six months
One of the top salespeople nationwide
Trained new staff and took on team lead duties, including running the store in the absence of senior staff