Andy Heckel
Security Engineer at Tidal Cyber
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndy Heckel is a Security Engineer with 14 years of professional experience and a strong blend of threat research and hands-on defensive engineering, currently focused at Tidal Cyber after several years in threat roles at VMware Carbon Black. He pairs technical training from SecureSet with a liberal arts BA from Wesleyan, bringing analytical rigor and clear communication to complex security problems. Andy’s background includes deep customer-facing experience from nearly a decade in snowsports instruction, which informs his collaborative, user-centered approach to security operations and incident response. As a former threat researcher and analyst, he’s comfortable translating adversary tradecraft into actionable detections and protections across enterprise environments. Based in Denver, he’s motivated by curiosity and mentorship, often bridging technical findings with practical guidance for nontechnical stakeholders.
14 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) College of Social Studies, Bachelor of Arts (BA) College of Social Studies at Wesleyan UniversityCORE Technical Program, CORE Technical Program at SecureSet Academy
German
Github Skills (8)
docker7
firefox-addon2
chrome-extension2
controller2
chrome2
webextension1
firefox1
html5-video1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
ahheckel/FSL-scripts
Mar 2012 - Mar 2017
Contributions:796 commits, 62 pushes in 5 years
ahheckel/RaspiCloud
Feb 2020 - Feb 2020
Contributions:51 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 1 day
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