Summary
Andy Poirier is a Cloud IAM Principal Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building and automating identity and access solutions across large enterprise cloud environments. Based in Shakopee, Minnesota, he has progressed through technical and leadership roles at U.S. Bank—from Senior Python Developer and Lead Cloud Engineer to Cloud Security manager—now driving cross-cloud IAM integration and automation. His background spans systems engineering, networking, and DevOps, giving him a rare full-stack perspective on authentication, provisioning, and secure service integration. He’s comfortable translating complex security requirements into automated, auditable workflows and has a history of improving operational reliability at scale. Notably, his career roots in hands-on network and systems administration inform a pragmatic approach to cloud security that balances policy, tooling, and real-world operations.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Computer Science Mathematics, Bachelor Computer Science Mathematics at Bemidji State University