Benjamin Wynsma
Nike Lead Automation Security Engineer
Newberg, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Wynsma is a Lead Automation Security Engineer at Nike with a decade of experience building dependable, production-focused tooling and automation for large organizations. He blends hands-on engineering—ranging from shell scripting, Perl and PHP to backend work on tools like the popular gimme-aws-creds CLI—with security automation and operational stability. At Nike he leads automation security efforts, having transitioned from consulting roles to an in-house leadership position that emphasizes reliable credentialing, configuration, and developer experience. Based in Newberg, Oregon, he pairs a strong computer science foundation (3.7 GPA) with a pragmatic approach to bug fixes, dependency management, and incremental feature delivery. Colleagues describe him as community-focused and passionate about both craftsmanship and team wellbeing.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, 3.7, Computer Science, 3.7 at George Fox University
Github Skills (3)
python10
cli10
configuration-management9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Nike-Inc/gimme-aws-creds
Feb 2020 - Apr 2022
A CLI that utilizes Okta IdP via SAML to acquire temporary AWS credentials
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 13 reviews, 18 commits in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily focused on bug fixes and minor feature enhancements to the `gimme-aws-creds` tool. Their contributions addressed issues related to keychain cleanup, output formatting, and profile creation, with the goal of improving the user experience and stability of the CLI. They also made updates to dependencies by fixing version numbers. The changes involved modifications to core configuration and main logic within the application.
aws-credentialsclioktasaml
vahava/UnityDevelopment
Mar 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:20 PRs, 55 pushes, 14 branches in 4 months
rpgtestingunitycreation
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