Christo Goosen
CTO & Security Consultant building secure, scalable solutions. Specializing in DevOps, InfoSec, and cloud architecture.
Building Secure Digital Solutions
Currently a business owner at Anomalous Tech, co-founder of fortifyops.ai, and DevOps/Security consultant with over a decade of experience in enterprise software development and cybersecurity. My expertise spans cloud architecture, security auditing, and building resilient systems that scale. I believe in the intersection of security and developer experience, creating solutions that are both robust and elegant.
Away from the keyboard I'm the owner and new operator of Green Gables, a 1918 heritage guesthouse in Strand, near Cape Town, which I'm renovating and running as boutique accommodation.
Outside of work I give back to the local security community as a Director & Organiser of BSides Cape Town, the volunteer-run information security conference held every December. I've helped organise it since 2017, after volunteering for two years before that. More on my background is on LinkedIn.
Latest Articles
Thoughts on security, cloud architecture, and building better software systems.
Building strandgreengables.co.za with Next.js, OpenNext and Cloudflare
A guesthouse we took over needed its digital side rebuilt, so I put the website on Next.js, OpenNext and Cloudflare Workers with Wrangler. Here's how it fits together and a few things to watch for.
Frigate NVR in a Proxmox LXC with Tailscale and offline TP-Link VIGI cameras
My cameras have no external internet access on purpose. Here's how I run Frigate in a Proxmox LXC with wired PoE VIGI cameras, local YOLOv9 detection, a local Qwen3.8-27B model and Tailscale for getting in from outside.
PwnGPT, building an agentic LLM Capture The Flag
Prompt injection gets talked about a lot, but hands-on places to practise it are scarce. That gap is why I built PwnGPT, an open-source agentic LLM Capture The Flag for learning prompt injection, information retrieval and the real security issues around large language models.
Surviving the Evil MSc: NLP and machine learning for anomaly detection on system call logs
I've completed my Master of Science in Computer Science (Information Security) at Rhodes University, better known as the Evil MSc. My thesis applied natural language processing and machine learning to Linux system call logs to detect known and unseen threats.
Ctrl wins Best Financial Solution at the 2018 MTN Business App of the Year Awards
Ctrl, the insurtech app I'm building as CTO, won Best Financial Solution at the 2018 MTN Business App of the Year Awards. A proud moment for a small team still in testing.
Firebase and AWS, match made in heaven
My experience with cloud always focused on Amazon AWS, not by preference, but by its widespread use in Cape Town. The best tool for the specific job will prevail, no matter your preference to vendors. Joining an insuretech startup I had my first exposure to GCP through Google's Firebase.
Finally my blog is up and running!
This should be familiar to some, but the delay in getting this running is a combination of procrastinating and over engineering the solution. Github Pages with Jekyll makes building a blog much easier than some tutorials would make you believe.
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Have a project in mind? Looking for a security consultation?I'd love to hear from you.
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Available for freelance projects, security consultations, and speaking engagements. Response time is typically within 24 hours.