Chaz Schlarp
Senior Security Engineer at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChaz Schlarp is a Senior Security Engineer with 12 years of experience building cloud-scale security tooling and automation at Amazon and AWS. A pragmatic Python practitioner and serverless advocate, he specializes in infrastructure-as-code—frequently working with CloudFormation to model and harden large distributed systems. His background spans application security, penetration testing, and operational systems administration, giving him a rare full-stack perspective on how vulnerabilities emerge across development, deployment, and runtime. Based in Seattle, he pairs hands-on engineering with practical threat discovery experience, and is known for playful engineering sensibilities (100% Unicode snowman) that belie a meticulous approach to secure, scalable design.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at North Carolina State University
English
Github Skills (91)
security10
extensible10
linux10
http-server10
acme9
golang9
voice9
audio9
reverse-proxy9
caddy9
python9
internet-radio9
http9
webserver9
server9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
schlarpc/schlarp.com
Apr 2016 - Sep 2021
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
schlarpc/wonkey2
May 2021 - Jan 2024
Contributions:3 releases, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
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