Andrew Beard
Principal Cloud Architect at ThreatQuotient
Roanoke, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Beard is a Principal Cloud Architect with a decade of experience building secure, embedded and cloud-native systems from threat research to production at companies like ThreatQuotient, Arbor Networks, and Fidelis. He combines deep embedded development roots from his early Wabtec work with a long track record in cybersecurity product architecture and threat systems management, bridging low-level engineering and cloud-scale security services. Based in Roanoke, VA, he’s known for translating research-driven security insights into practical, operational platforms that support teams from R&D to customers. His career shows a pattern of stepping into technical leadership roles where complex systems and threat detection intersect, and he often operates at the boundary of firmware/embedded constraints and cloud architectures.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Engineering, B.S. Computer Engineering at University of Maryland
English
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Github Skills (66)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
andrewbeard/foundry-neon-lords
Oct 2024 - Jan 2026
Contributions:151 pushes, 1 branch, 36 tags in 1 year 2 months
andrewbeard/broworkshop
Feb 2018 - Aug 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 28 commits, 32 pushes in 4 years 6 months
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