Name: Yorkshire DevOps #35 - March 2026 - Financial Conduct Authority - Leeds
Start: 2026-03-05T18:00:00Z
End: 2026-03-05T20:00:00Z
Location: Financial Conduct Authority

The Financial Conduct Authority will host Yorkshire DevOps at their February 2026 event in the Leeds office.

You can find our code of conduct over at [yorkshiredevops.dev](https://yorkshiredevops.dev/)

Speakers:
**Speaker:** Brian Walker, Technical Specialist, HSBC
**Talk:** Types of Indexes in Databases
**Description:** Index design in Relational Databases.

**Speaker:** Jonny Brodie, Senior Platform/Cloud Security Engineer, Trustpilot
**Talk:** Engineering Governance: Scaling Policy as Code with Conftest
**Description:** Modern cloud environments move fast — governance must move faster. Traditional review boards and static compliance documents can’t keep up with Infrastructure as Code, ephemeral environments, and high-velocity CI/CD pipelines. This talk explores how to engineer governance directly into your delivery workflow using Policy as Code, powered by Open Policy Agent (OPA) and enforced in CI with Conftest.

**Sponsors:**
Thank you to The Financial Conduct Authority for hosting the meetup and Ada Meher & Digital Endeavours for being our long-term sponsors.

**Timings (approx):**
17:45 - Arrivals and Networking
18:25 - Welcome and introductions
18:30 -Talk 1
19:00 - Break
19:10 - Talk 2
19:55 - Close
20:15 - Venue closes

Ethan Sumner

Zuzanna

Edward Richardson-Lee

Yorkshire DevOps

Community Stack

Ada Meher

Digital Endevours

Financial Conduct Authority

Overmind

Accenture

Burendo

Lloyds Banking Group

Axiologik

Technology

Open Source

Software Development

New Technology

Web Development

New Product Development: Software & Tech

Cloud Computing

Amazon Web Services

Computer Programming

DevOps

Technology Startups

Virtualization

Startup Businesses

IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)

Linux

System Administration

Proficient security specialist with a strong background in Information Technology. Utilising fifteen years of technical experience, six years focused on Cloud Native Security. A technical hands-on' engineer, developing solutions; ensuring security is part of an organisation’s Reference Architecture with an objective to ensure security standards are consistent in both build & runtime environments. As a direct report to the CISO, I work on the strategic direction on embedding DevSecOps practices. The ultimate goal is to promote self-service and automation patterns to remove as much ‘toil’ from developers as possible.




Key interests/achievements:

I've spoken on podcasts.
https://cloudsecuritypodcast.tv/season-3/google-cloud-security-fundamentals-level-2/

I also attend, support and speak at local meet-ups.
https://www.meetup.com/york-amazon-web-services-user-group/
https://www.meetup.com/aws-user-group-north-east-england/
https://www.meetup.com/serverless-north-east/
https://yorkshiredevops.cloud/

Contributed towards migrating Prowler v2 to v3, the industry standard in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), in addition to beta testing for multi-cloud support. OWASP Chapter and contributor towards OWASP DevSecOps Guidelines.
https://github.com/prowler-cloud/prowler
https://owasp.org/www-project-devsecops-guideline/latest/

Speaker at DTX Manchester, UK on “Avoiding the Cloud Security Storm”.
https://www.dtxevents.io/manchester-line-up/speakers#/speakers/jonathan-brodie

Speaker at AWS re:Inforce re:Cap London 2025
https://aws.amazon.com/events/reinforce-recap-london/

Jonny Brodie

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