Andrew Klaas
Staff Solutions Engineer - Global Strategic Accounts
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Klaas is a Staff Solutions Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in cloud-native security, CNAPP/CSPM, secrets and identity/privileged access management, and service mesh/API protection across AWS, Azure, and GCP. He has advanced through progressive customer-facing roles at HashiCorp and Wiz, advising global strategic accounts on DevSecOps, automation, and secure cloud architecture. Hands-on contributor to HashiCorp Vault guides, he’s implemented automated Vault deployments—SSH CA, OTP backends, and auth policy scripting—bringing practical secrets-management expertise to large enterprises. Based in the Chicago area and grounded in a Computer Engineering degree from UIUC, Andrew blends deep technical implementation skills with sales engineering acumen to translate security strategy into deployable, auditable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (15)
secret-management10
sh10
secrets-manager10
user-authentication10
authentication10
script10
automations10
automation10
shell10
devops10
scripting10
vault10
security9
ssh9
terraform7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/vault-guides
Dec 2017 - Oct 2019
Example usage of HashiCorp Vault secrets management
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:28 commits, 14 PRs, 29 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Andrew contributed significantly to the infrastructure and configuration aspects of the HashiCorp Vault guides repository. Their commits focused on setting up SSH certificate authority (CA) and OTP backends within Vault. This included writing shell scripts for configuring Vault policies, user authentication, and setting up control group features for added security, while also updating the vault-ssh-helper configuration. The user's work involved automating the deployment and management of Vault-related services.
hashicorp-vaultvaultsecrets
Andrew-Klaas/k8s-vault-multi-region
May 2023 - Apr 2025
Terraform & Helm scripts to deploy Vault across multiple regions
Contributions:15 PRs, 19 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 11 months
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