Andrew Woodward
Cloud Security Engineer at Verkada
California, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Woodward is a Cloud Security Engineer with 13 years of experience building automation, SRE, and cloud infrastructure across companies like Verkada, Instacart, Optimizely, and Box. He specializes in transforming legacy operations into scalable, automated platforms—having led Kubernetes and OpenStack efforts that scaled platforms to thousands of nodes and enabled hundreds of services. Pragmatic about developer velocity and safety, he implemented IaC testing with OPA, cross-VPC migrations to resolve IP shortages, and automated remediations that reduced toil and operational risk. A longtime advocate and contributor to open technologies, he blends deep systems engineering (Ceph, KVM, networking) with policy-driven security practices. Based in California, he intentionally automates repetitive work so he can focus on higher-impact problems and mentorship.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Cert Certified Network Administration, Cert Certified Network Administration at Central County Occupational CenterDiploma, Diploma at Del Mar High SchoolAS (2) Computer Information systems: Unix Networking; Computer Information Systems: General Networking, AS (2) Computer Information systems: Unix Networking; Computer Information Systems: General Networking at San Jose City College
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Github Skills (200)
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opencomputers10
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automation10
game-development10
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launcher10
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game-engine10
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
xarses/lftp-upload-action
Sep 2021 - Jul 2023
Contributions:2 releases, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
xarses/UPDeckOBS
Apr 2022 - Sep 2022
Unofficial UPDeck OBS Script
Contributions:2 releases, 30 PRs, 24 pushes in 5 months
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