Ann Wallace is a seasoned cloud and security leader with over two decades of hands-on experience building secure, automated infrastructure and developer-facing compliance programs. Currently VP of Customer Experience at Edera, she blends technical documentation, forward-deployed engineering, and support to drive solutions that scale and stay auditable. Her career spans strategic roles at Google, Shopify, Okta and Nike, where she launched cloud security offerings, led GRC and helped migrate large systems to AWS and GCP. A practiced public speaker (KubeCon, re:Invent, Google Cloud Next) and open-source contributor, she has improved tooling like the widely used gimme-aws-creds CLI and contributed infrastructure docs to projects such as Mantl. Known for building collaborative, diverse teams, she pairs deep technical fluency with pragmatic product and customer focus—plus a surprising sideline running a global route repository she co-founded.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Arlington
Computer Science, Computer Science at Portland State University
A CLI that utilizes Okta IdP via SAML to acquire temporary AWS credentials
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:2 releases, 42 commits, 43 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Ann primarily contributed to the core functionality of the `gimme-aws-creds` tool, focusing on error handling, configuration management, and integration with Okta for AWS credential retrieval. They implemented improvements in error messaging when AWS applications are not found and added functionality for versioning. The user's work involved modifying the core logic of the application and updating the build configuration.
Mantl is a modern platform for rapidly deploying globally distributed services
Role in this project:
DevOps & Cloud Engineer
Contributions:1 release, 56 commits, 11 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Ann primarily contributed to the infrastructure and documentation aspects of the project, focusing on cloud configuration and setup. They added examples and documentation for AWS Route53 and Google Cloud DNS. Their work included updating documentation to reflect changes in the GCE console and terraform module updates. Furthermore, the user made adjustments to the Vagrant setup and documentation.
deployingdockerkubernetescloud-nativedistributed
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