Dakota Riley
Security Engineer - Cloud at SANS Institute
Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDakota Riley is a cloud-focused security engineer with five years of hands-on experience building secure, automated systems across startups and large enterprises. Currently based in Oregon, Dakota works at Fluidstack and teaches cloud-native security and DevSecOps automation as a SANS instructor candidate, blending practitioner experience with curriculum-driven clarity. Former roles at LiveRamp, Aquia, Stedi, and AWS show a trajectory from hands-on security services to principal and staff-level positions, emphasizing serverless and cloud transformation projects. Dakota pairs product-minded security (application and cloud) with automation-first tooling, and also dabbles in software development to bridge engineering and security teams. Colleagues describe Dakota as someone who thrives on turning complex security requirements into practical, auditable workflows and training others to scale those patterns.
5 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Information Technology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Information Technology at Northern Kentucky University
Github Skills (116)
python10
security10
kubernetes-security10
emulation10
aws-security10
cybersecurity10
neo4j10
azure-security10
policies10
cloud-security10
mitre-attack10
aws10
owasp9
graph-database9
aws-cdk9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
rileydakota/valheim-ecs-fargate-cdk
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
AWS CDK/Cloudformation to deploy a Valheim Server using ECS Fargate!
Contributions:3 reviews, 28 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 11 months
aws-cdkawsecs-fargatevalheimgaming
rileydakota/cfn-sweeper
May 2021 - Aug 2021
A CLI Tool to find resources in an AWS Account not actively managed by Cloudformation!
Contributions:2 reviews, 24 commits, 3 PRs in 3 months
awscli
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