Olly Ewert

Olly Ewert is a seasoned professional in security architecture and engineering, currently serving as the Lead Security Architect at Bastion Security Group since August 2025. Prior roles include Senior Platform Security Engineer positions at Tempo NZ and Forsyth Barr Limited, as well as experience as a Cloud Native Security Engineer at ControlPlane, where work focused on security and DevOps topics using various technologies. Additional experience involves consulting on cloud security and DevOps at Fantail Consulting, software engineering at Permiso Security, and security consulting roles at Toptal and ESR. Ewert's early career at Westpac included platform engineering, while a significant tenure at Xero involved security architecture, engineering, and automation within AWS. Ewert holds a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Network Engineering from Victoria University of Wellington.