Colby Williams
Security Delivery Manager at Accenture Federal Services
Saint George, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolColby Williams is a Security Delivery Manager and seasoned Splunk architect with 15 years of experience designing and operating observability and cloud infrastructure for large enterprises. Based in Saint George, Utah, he currently leads AWS administration and IaC efforts for an eXtended Detection and Response program at Accenture Federal Services, specializing in Terraform, SaltStack, and GitHub Enterprise administration. His background spans hands-on Splunk implementations at financial and retail firms and deep Linux systems and configuration management expertise (Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack). Colby combines delivery leadership with practitioner-level skills in CI/CD (Jenkins), Packer, Terragrunt, and AWS, making him adept at turning security telemetry into scalable, auditable platforms. Notably, he brings long-term operational perspective—rooted in Unix/Linux and network operations dating back to the late 1990s—that helps bridge legacy systems and modern cloud-native tooling.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Utah
Github Skills (31)
splunk10
highlighting10
syntax-highlighting10
vscode-extension9
vscode9
transform6
linux6
security6
terraform6
terraform-provider6
rust5
shortest-path5
puppet5
pdk4
infrastructure-as-code4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
yorokobi/.dotfiles
Oct 2010 - Aug 2022
Contributions:124 commits, 18 pushes, 4 branches in 12 years
yorokobi/vim-splunk
Feb 2013 - Jan 2023
Syntax highlighting for Splunk .conf files
Contributions:102 commits, 20 PRs, 97 pushes in 10 years 1 month
vscodevscode-extensionconfsplunkhighlighting
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