Derek Held
Engineering Manager, Security at Experian
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolDerek Held is an engineering manager specializing in cloud and application security with a decade of hands-on experience building secure systems across AWS, Google Cloud, and Kubernetes. At Experian he progressed from Cloud Security Engineer to Senior Cloud Security Engineer and now leads security engineering initiatives, known internally as a "destroyer of secret keys" who automates security policy as code and integrates tools and teams. His background spans incident response, IAM modernization, DevSecOps enablement, and infrastructure automation from roles at Zonar and IOActive to university security operations. Derek combines technical depth—scripting, CI/CD pipeline hardening, and cloud architecture—with program-level skills in budgeting, policy development (NIST-based), and cross-functional leadership. He holds graduate training in Engineering and Technology Management and often translates complex security controls into developer-friendly workflows so teams can ship securely without friction.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering and Technology Management, Master of Engineering and Technology Management at Washington State University
English
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Github Skills (29)
terraform10
terraform-provider10
aws10
terraform-module10
phpbb9
python9
machine-learning9
forum9
ansible9
ssh9
deep-learning8
cve8
php8
tensorflow8
data-science7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
heatware/phpbb-global-feedback-plugin
Apr 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:5 releases, 56 PRs, 27 pushes in 6 months
user-feedbackfeedback-pluginphpforumphpbb-forum
derekheld/blue-storage
Jun 2016 - Jun 2019
Contributions:47 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years
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