Cameron Wade
Verified Expert in Engineering
Cloud Security Developer
Cameron is a cloud and security professional with over ten years of information technology experience. He's helped companies design and implement secure AWS cloud architectures that scale efficiently. With a master's of science degree in cyber security operations and two AWS certifications—AWS-SAA and AWS Security Specialty—Cameron believes in simplifying processes to enable software engineers to build superior products.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Amazon Web Services (AWS), GitHub, Python, Terraform, MacOS, Slack, Docker, AWS SDK, Cloud Security, Cloud Infrastructure
The most amazing...
...platform I've built consisted in taking a legacy on-premise infrastructure stack and moving it to a cloud-based platform that included EC2, Serverless, and EKS.
Work Experience
Senior Security Engineer
Color Health, Inc.
- Refactored all audit trail logging for identity and cloud systems to be delivered to a SIEM with priority alerts related to the activity going to PagerDuty. This involved moving all configurations into Terraform and following AWS best practices.
- Fixed critical identity and access management policies and permissions and implemented new roles following least privilege principles.
- Researched, tested, and deployed a new phishing service for the company to improve phishing detection in corporate mailboxes. This improved email phishing detection throughout the company and provided a lot of value when reporting phishing.
- Provided product and application security guidance for core products running on Python 3 with Django. Reviewed and implemented best practices for code scanning or using secure modules.
Senior Cloud Security Architect
Alteryx
- Designed controls for cloud security components and created plans for their implementation.
- Deployed a DaemonSet-based security agent to Kubernetes clusters for security monitoring.
- Worked with the senior leadership and architecture team to create solutions that meet organizational long-term goals.
Security Engineer
PagerDuty
- Deployed and maintained security tooling and features for cloud infrastructure that include cloud-native tooling and licensed applications.
- Provided architectural guidance and review on security features for product or internal tooling.
- Owned identity and access management processes and built processes around provisioning the least privileged roles and users.
Platform Security Engineer
CHG Healthcare
- Integrated security into CI/CD pipelines to provide code scanning and vulnerability management.
- Owned the architecture and engineering of security solutions to protect cloud deployments running on AWS and Kubernetes.
- Implemented and maintained tooling to deploy intrusion detection and vulnerability management solutions into AWS at scale.
Platform Engineer
CHG Healthcare
- Built CI/CD pipelines for engineering teams to efficiently deliver products on multiple public and private clouds like on-premise, Heroku, and AWS.
- Developed Terraform modules to deploy various AWS services and cloud infrastructure at scale.
- Managed enterprise tooling such as Elastic Cloud, AWS, SaltStack, GitHub, Okta, and supported engineering teams with integrations to these tools.
Experience
Domain Monitoring
I worked with our registrar vendor to track new domains similar to ours so that we could file abuse complaints and work with legal to have them removed. This action protected our brand and prevented our customers from falling into phishing attacks that appeared to be us. Additionally, I used DNSTwist and simplified the process with Python to search for domains, validate what the registrar found, and find other domains it may have missed.
AWS Organization Migration
Route53 Domain Transfer
https://github.com/cbztech/r53-transferStart by running the transfer.py with credentials for Account A and then run the accept.py with credentials for Account B.
AWS & Terraform Solution for Interview Challenges
https://github.com/cbztech/dvwa-ecs-tfBecause I did not want to keep a DVWA hosted on the AWS infrastructure, I built this out in Terraform on AWS Elastic Container Service so it could be easily spun up and down for interviews.
Skills
Languages
Python, Ruby, Python 3
Tools
GitHub, Terraform, Slack, AWS SDK, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Chef, SaltStack, AWS CloudFormation, GitLab, VPN, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Git
Paradigms
DevOps, Penetration Testing, Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Integration (CI)
Platforms
MacOS, Amazon EC2, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Linux, Kubernetes
Other
Cloud Security, Cloud Infrastructure, IT Infrastructure, Architecture, Security, Web Development, Secure Coding, Compliance, NIST, DNS, IP Protection, Planning, Implementation, Amazon Route 53, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Okta
Frameworks
Django
Storage
Database Management
Education
Master's Degree in Cyber Security Operations and Leadership
University of San Diego - San Diego, CA, USA
Bachelor's Degree in Management Information Systems
Utah State University - Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Certifications
AWS Certified Security – Specialty
Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
AWS
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