Derek Manwaring
Principal Security Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Greater Phoenix Area United States
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Top SchoolDerek Manwaring is a Principal Security Engineer with nine years of focused experience at Amazon Web Services, where he progressed from software development roles into senior security leadership driving cloud-scale protections. He combines a strong software engineering foundation—built at AWS Lambda and early SDE roles—with a Master’s in Cybersecurity Engineering to architect practical, production-ready security controls for large distributed systems. Known for translating complex security requirements into developer-friendly solutions, he has a track record of evolving through hands-on engineering and threat-focused roles since 2013. Based in the Greater Phoenix Area, Derek pairs rigorous academic roots (BS in Computer Science, 3.94 GPA) with enterprise-grade delivery, often bridging development and security teams to reduce risk without slowing innovation.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, 3.94 (4.0 scale), Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, 3.94 (4.0 scale) at Brigham Young UniversityMaster's, Cybersecurity Engineering, Master's, Cybersecurity Engineering at University of Washington Bothell
Italian, English
Github Skills (12)
open-source10
firecracker10
sandbox10
serverless10
rust10
virtual-machine10
virtualization10
lwjgl6
awt5
java4
java-game3
opengl3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
derekmanwaring/firecracker
Apr 2023 - Mar 2024
Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing.
Contributions:12 pushes, 3 branches in 11 months
mash-robotics/Starburst
Jan 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:25 pushes in 2 months
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