Andrew Mccoy
GitHub Principal Architect
Vernon, Connecticut, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Mccoy is a Principal Architect at GitHub with seven years of formal experience and a decade-long background in SDLC-focused cybersecurity and CI/CD pipeline engineering across startups, regulated industries, government, and finance. He specializes in aligning enterprise development lifecycles to shift security left, helping organizations embed automated code scanning and GitHub Advanced Security practices early in delivery. Prior roles span field solutions engineering and customer-facing technical leadership at Sonatype and Cigna, where he led enterprise DevOps Center of Enablement initiatives and delivered end-to-end build and release automation. A Marine Corps veteran and honors computer science graduate, he combines operational discipline with hands-on engineering to drive measurable security and delivery improvements. Notably, he has shepherded large-scale SDLC transformations that balance regulatory constraints with modern DevOps speed.
7 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.S Computer Science - Honors, B.S Computer Science - Honors at Central Connecticut State UniversityA.S. General Studies, A.S. General Studies at Manchester Community CollegeSWHS
Github Skills (77)
github10
runnable10
verify10
github-issues10
benchmark9
vulnerability9
vulnerabilities8
owasp8
static-analysis8
security8
secure-coding8
sast8
java8
vulnerability-detection7
fuzzing7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Moose0621/github-slideshow
Sep 2019 - Mar 2025
A robot powered training repository :robot:
Contributions:13 PRs, 33 pushes, 31 branches in 5 years 7 months
roboticsrosrobottraining
Moose0621/merge-conflicts
Sep 2019 - May 2024
Contributions:12 PRs, 33 pushes, 35 branches in 4 years 9 months
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