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Police Officer
BradfordFrontline policing, incident response and investigation in situations where decisions had real consequences. Received a commendation during my service.
Security Engineer · AI · UK
Security engineering.
AI. Building.
I’m Matt Sinar, a Security Engineer working with AI, with a background in security operations and frontline policing. I like turning messy technical problems into practical, secure solutions — whether that means investigating, engineering, automating or building.
01 / ABOUT
From frontline policing to defensive security.
Before moving into cybersecurity, I served as a Police Officer in Bradford and received a commendation. The job taught me to stay composed, gather facts quickly and make decisions when information is incomplete.
That mindset carried naturally into security operations. I later graduated from Leeds Beckett University with a First-Class degree, moved into cybersecurity and progressed into security engineering. I now work with AI, combining security thinking with engineering, automation and a growing area of technology that rarely sits still for long.
I’ve also spent plenty of time learning by doing: writing small Python tools, building websites, helping organise events, working on cars and taking on projects where the quickest way to understand something is to get stuck into it.
02 / EXPERIENCE
A slightly unusual route into cybersecurity.
The titles changed. The useful bits — investigation, judgement, communication and keeping a level head — carried across.
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First-Class Degree
Leeds Beckett UniversityBuilt the academic and technical foundation for moving into security, while continuing to develop practical skills through personal projects.
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Security Operations
SOC AnalystAlert triage, investigation and defensive security work: understanding what happened, deciding what matters and turning technical evidence into useful action.
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Security Engineering
Security Engineer · AIMy current role, working at the intersection of security engineering and AI — building, improving and securing technical workflows while applying the investigative mindset developed in operations.
03 / WHAT I DO
Security engineering that does something useful.
My current work blends security engineering with AI, alongside the investigative and automation skills I built in security operations.
Investigate
Work through alerts and incidents methodically, build context from evidence and separate genuinely interesting activity from background noise.
Engineer
Design and improve security-focused technical workflows, turning operational problems into maintainable solutions rather than one-off fixes.
AI & Automate
Work with AI and automation to reduce repetitive effort, explore better workflows and make technical processes faster, more useful and easier to scale.
Build
Websites, event systems, Python utilities or car projects — I learn fastest by making something real and improving it as I go.
04 / SELECTED PROJECTS
Work that exists outside PowerPoint.
A few of the things I’ve built, organised or spent far too many evenings tinkering with.
01WEB · EVENTS · COMMUNITY
Louth Rotary Hill Climb
Built the event website and online payment flow, supported social media and helped organise a hill climb that raised £4,000 for charity.
- Website & online payments
- Event support
- Social media
Visit project ↗
02MECHANICAL · DESIGN
NC MX-5 Build
Suspension, performance, interior and styling work on my NC — a long-running exercise in making a simple car slightly less simple.
View build ↗
03PYTHON · AUTOMATION
Python Projects
Small utilities, games and API experiments built to learn by doing — from file organisers and password generators to simple automation ideas.
- Utilities
- APIs
- Automation
Browse projects ↗
05 / SKILLS & APPROACH
Technical enough to dig in. Practical enough to ship.
Security
Technical
Operational
06 / OFF DUTY
Cars, bikes and getting outside.
Work is only one bit of the site. The rest is usually mountain biking, working on the MX-5 or finding another project that definitely looked cheaper at the start.
07 / CONTACT
Want to talk security, AI, projects or cars?
If you’ve got an interesting role, technical project or collaboration in mind, LinkedIn is the easiest place to reach me.
Connect on LinkedIn ↗