Caleb Tonn
Director - Platform Engineering
Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCaleb Tonn is a Director of Platform Engineering with eight years in leadership roles and a broader 15+ year technical background spanning cloud, security, DevOps, and web development. A CISSP-certified practitioner and former penetration tester, he blends hands-on security engineering with strategic program leadership—building secure cloud architectures, incident response programs, and secure software delivery pipelines. At Slalom he has progressed from architect to director, shaping secure DevOps practices across multi-state regions and guiding cloud migrations and governance. Previously he built enterprise security programs for a state health agency, designing VPC architectures and vulnerability/red team programs that balanced regulatory compliance with operational needs. Known for translating complex security frameworks (NIST, CIS Controls) into measurable roadmaps, he fosters collaborative, product-focused teams that automate validation and create self-healing infrastructure. Based in Texas with a computational physics background, he brings a pragmatic, research-minded approach to solving thorny security and platform challenges.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computational Physics, Computational Physics at Washington State University
Github Skills (26)
virtualbox10
satellite10
ansible-role10
hashicorp9
vault9
ansible9
vagrant9
service-discovery8
development-environment8
hashicorp-vault7
signed7
security7
consul7
lint7
linting7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
calebtonn/terraform-image
Apr 2022 - Apr 2022
Docker image that installs Terraform and includes a git hook that checks for a signed GPG key.
Contributions:21 pushes in 1 day
gpggpg-keydocker-imagegit-hooksigned
calebtonn/xyz-client
Apr 2022 - May 2022
Terraform module, which takes care of a lot of AWS Lambda/serverless tasks (build dependencies, packages, updates, deployments) in countless combinations 🇺🇦
Contributions:15 pushes, 3 branches in 12 days
takesdependencieslotserverlessaws-lambda
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