Damien Burks
Senior Security Engineer at LinkedIn
Dallas, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDamien Burks is a Senior Security Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience designing automated, scalable cloud security and DevSecOps solutions across multi-cloud environments. He has led incident response automation, migrated infrastructure to Terraform Enterprise, and integrated security tooling into CI/CD pipelines to dramatically reduce technical debt and response times at enterprise firms like Citi and Verizon. As founder of The DevSec Blueprint and a LinkedIn Learning instructor, he teaches practical skills while contributing to notable open-source projects such as Open Policy Agent, where he’s improved core compilation and logging components. Now securing cloud services at FICO, Damien blends software engineering rigor with security architecture, routinely building frameworks that meet modern compliance needs. Outside work he channels his curiosity into content creation and community-building, and—less obviously—applies the same disciplined focus from routing incident response to analyzing game narratives in Persona 5 Royal.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Cybersecurity Technology, Master of Science - MS Cybersecurity Technology at University of Maryland Global CampusBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Texas Southern University
English
Github Skills (9)
opa10
authorizations10
go10
policies10
authorization10
open-policy-agent10
testing9
json8
cloud-native7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
open-policy-agent/opa
Jan 2022 - Jun 2022
Open Policy Agent (OPA) is an open source, general-purpose policy engine.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 reviews, 5 commits, 9 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Damien primarily contributed to the Open Policy Agent (OPA) project by addressing bugs, implementing features, and improving code quality within the project's codebase. Their work included removing deprecated code, fixing issues related to the software development kit (SDK), and enhancing the compilation process by addressing unused imports. The user also worked on logging and string formatting functionalities, improving the overall functionality and reliability of the OPA project.
opaopen-policy-agentpolicydeclarativejson
devsecblueprint/python-fastapi
Feb 2025 - Apr 2026
DSB FastAPI Application
Contributions:4 reviews, 8 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 year 2 months
fastapipythonpython-template
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