Chris Farris
Owner at PrimeHarbor Technologies, LLC
Matosinhos, Porto, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Farris is a cloud security practitioner and owner with three decades in IT, specializing in Linux, networking, and cloud security for major media companies. He has built and matured cloud security programs that span secure design, incident response, and vulnerability management, and authored risk-based cloud security standards and baselines. As an architect and hands-on engineer he’s implemented both serverless and traditional cloud applications, with a practical focus on deployment, operations, and financial modeling. Chris contributes to notable open-source CSPM work—helping harden tools like cloudsploit with checks for EC2 metadata, EBS-in-transit encryption, and GuardDuty detections—and evangelizes cloud governance through fwd:cloudsec, which he helps organize. His long tenure in broadcast and media (Turner, Warner Bros. Discovery, Discovery Inc.) gives him rare domain expertise marrying content workflows with scalable cloud security. Off-hours he still builds things—literally with Lego—and writes about security and tooling on chrisfarris.com.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Southern Polytechnic State UniversityBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (9)
ec10
audit10
amazon-ec210
cloud-security10
aws10
auditing10
python5
terraformer4
terraform4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
aquasecurity/cloudsploit
Dec 2019 - Jul 2020
Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:18 commits, 37 PRs, 3 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Chris focused on implementing security-related features and improving the reliability of the `cloudsploit` project, a Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) tool. Their work involved adding checks for EC2 metadata options and ensuring secure configurations, including enforcing EBS encryption in transit and adding plugins for detecting GuardDuty configuration issues. Additionally, the user contributed to the development of plugins and improvements in functionality related to different AWS services, demonstrating a focus on improving the security features within the CSPM context.
security-auditgcpposturesecuritycloud
WarnerMedia/aws-fast-fixes
Feb 2020 - Aug 2020
Scripts to quickly fix security and compliance issues
Contributions:10 commits, 17 PRs, 25 pushes in 6 months
fixsecurity-toolsathenasecurityamazon-web-services
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