Andy Wickersham
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndy Wickersham is a Senior Security Engineer at AWS with over 20 years of experience designing and hardening cloud-native security controls for global environments. Based in the Greater Chicago Area, he combines deep hands-on expertise in AWS CloudFormation, Lambda, and infrastructure automation with practical implementations of GuardDuty, Macie, CloudTrail, and Firewall Manager. He has contributed to the AWS Security Reference Architecture examples, improving packaging, refactoring code, and adding features like EC2 default EBS encryption to make secure deployments more repeatable. Known for translating complex security requirements into auditable infrastructure-as-code, he balances pragmatic engineering with long-term operational resilience. His background includes technical contributions across large-scale AWS deployments and a foundation of study at Washington University in St. Louis. Notably, he focuses on making security patterns consumable by teams through reusable templates and automation.
5 years of coding experience
Washington University in St. Louis
Github Skills (11)
lambda-functions10
aws-cloudformation10
aws10
aws-security10
python7
terraform7
terraformer7
docker6
dockers6
githubaction-workflow5
github-ci5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
aws-samples/aws-security-reference-architecture-examples
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
Example solutions demonstrating how to implement patterns within the AWS Security Reference Architecture guide using CloudFormation (including Customizations for AWS Control Tower) and Terraform.
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:7 releases, 9 reviews, 244 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Andy primarily focused on enhancing and maintaining the infrastructure of the AWS Security Reference Architecture examples. They made various code refactors, including fixes, updates, and the addition of features for the GuardDuty, Macie, CloudTrail, and Firewall Manager solutions. The user demonstrated expertise in areas such as AWS CloudFormation and Lambda functions. Moreover, the user made changes to packaging scripts and added code for the EC2 default EBS encryption solution.
aws-security-automationcontrol-toweraws-cloudformationarchitecture-guidesecurity
andywick-aws/aws-security-reference-architecture-examples
Sep 2021 - Sep 2021
Example solutions demonstrating how to implement the AWS Security Reference Architecture using AWS Control Tower and CloudFormation StackSets
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
control-towersecurityreference-architecturecloudtrailcloud-security
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