Dan Hoerst
Senior Security Operations Engineer
Town of Somers, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDan Hoerst is a Senior Security Operations Engineer with 13 years of experience modernizing cloud infrastructure, IAM, and security workflows for high-scale companies. He led the open-sourced transformation of GitHub’s internal entitlements system into a modular, pluggable application and automated a manual 24-hour IAM approval process into a self-service ChatOps/GitHub Actions pipeline that handled 50,000+ PRs. Dan combines deep SRE and DevOps chops—containerization, LDAP configuration-as-code, and SOC2-ready controls—with hands-on web app pentesting and process redesign to improve stability and speed. He’s comfortable in fast-moving environments from ad-tech to media and identity platforms, and has a habit of turning legacy, manually managed systems into fully automated, auditable pipelines. An advocate for open source, he routinely shares work and tooling publicly to help teams scale securely.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice at Gloucester County College
Stackoverflow
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heroku
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github
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git
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amazon-web-services
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django
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Github Skills (107)
dashboard10
grafana10
security10
heroku10
elasticsearch10
monitoring10
entitlements10
data-visualization10
mysql10
analytics10
aws-cloudformation10
go10
prometheus10
secrets9
code-review9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
DanHoerst/notecard
Sep 2012 - Mar 2014
Contributions:92 commits in 1 year 5 months
github/entitlements-config
May 2022 - Aug 2022
An example of how Entitlements can be configured
Contributions:2 reviews, 84 commits, 3 PRs in 3 months
gitpodsecurityentitlementsautomationiam
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